David Pastrnak scored three goals and Nick Ritchie added one goal and one assist to lift the Boston Bruins past the Philadelphia Flyers 7-3 Sunday in the NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nevada. Charlie McAvoy, Charlie Coyle and Trent Frederic each contributed one goal for the Bruins, who have won all five meetings against the Flyers this season. Three wins have come in regulation, one in overtime and one in a shootout. Brad Marchand, Connor Clifton, John Moore and Craig Smith had two assists each.
Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask made 16 saves. James van Riemsdyk had one goal and two assists while Sean Couturier had one goal and one assist for the Flyers. Joel Farabee added one goal and Kevin Hayes contributed two assists. Flyers goaltender Carter Hart allowed six goals in two periods and was replaced by Brian Elliott to open the third. Elliott stopped 11 of 12 shots. Hart made 17 saves.
Captain Claude Giroux, Jake Voracek, Travis Konecny, Oskar Lindblom and Scott Laughton were among the vital Flyers on the COVID-19 list and out for this matchup.
The Bruins jumped out to a 1-0 lead just 34 seconds into the first period when Pastrnak sent a wrist shot into a mostly open net.
Farabee’s eighth goal of the season, an impressive feat as he scored while sliding on the ice, tied it at 1 at 6:41. Philadelphia went ahead 2-1 when Couturier gathered a loose puck in front and scored at 14:48 of the first. McAvoy equalized at 2 just 39 seconds later when he fired a slap shot through traffic in front. Pastrnak’s second goal just 46 seconds into the second extended Boston’s advantage to 3-2. The nasty wrist shot clanged underneath the crossbar and into the net.
The Flyers had several solid scoring chances but couldn’t capitalise and the Bruins soon went ahead 4-2 when Coyle scored at 16:14 of the second. Frederic extended the lead to 5-2 only 33 seconds later with his first career goal.
Ritchie’s power play goal at 17:43 pushed the lead to 6-2. Philadelphia closed within 6-3 when van Riemsdyk scored on the power play at 12:45 of the third. Pastrnak registered the hat trick at 17:04. It was his second hat trick against the Flyers this season.


Tkachuk scores winner as Senators nip Canadiens in OT
Brady Tkachuk scored the overtime winner and the host Ottawa Senators claimed an exciting 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday. Matt Murray made 30 saves for the Senators, who snapped a two-game losing skid despite being without their best defenseman in Thomas Chabot.
The Senators have struggled to win all season, but were full marks in this affair, especially with a dominating overtime performance. Tkachuk, who was denied during a breakaway earlier in the extra period, found the mark from the slot with 90 seconds remaining in overtime to collect his sixth goal of the season. Montreal goalie Jake Allen, who came up with a couple of clutch saves late in regulation, stopped 36 shots in what could be seen as an unlucky loss.
Having dropped three of their previous four games, the Canadiens were in need of a hot start and received it when Nick Suzuki opened the scoring just 77 seconds into the clash. An Ottawa turnover in the Montreal zone resulted in an odd-man rush that ended with Suzuki receiving a cross-ice pass from Josh Anderson and firing a shot off the far post and in for his fourth goal of the season.
Drake Batherson replied just before the midway point of the opening frame to even the count. After racing down the wing, Batherson cut to the front of the net and fell just as he attempted to shoot. The puck ended up bounding up and over Allen and into the net with 10:13 left for Batherson’s fourth goal of the season. Josh Norris gave the Senators the lead with a fortunate bounce. Nikita Zaitsev sent a point shot that Norris managed to deflect, and when the puck hit Allen, it vaulted over him and found the net for Norris’s fourth goal of the season at 3:33 of the period. However, Corey Perry equalled the count with 5:25 remaining in regulation. Perry, a healthy scratch the previous game, zipped past Ottawa defender Erik Gudbranson, cut to the net and tucked the puck into the net.