SUNRISE, Fla. – Patrice Bergeron scored two goals, David Krejci scored the winner in the shootout and the Boston Bruins beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Monday night.
Tuukka Rask stopped 38 shots for the Bruins.
Jason Garrison and Shawn Matthias scored for Florida, and Scott Clemmensen made 33 saves.
Bergeron also had a goal in the shootout for Boston, and Stephen Weiss had a shootout goal for Florida.
Bergeron’s second goal of the game came during a two-man advantage and put the Bruins ahead 2-1.
Tyler Seguin shot from the slot and Bergeron deflected the puck under Clemmensen’s legs at 14:40 of the second.
The Panthers answered just over a minute later. As Matthias was coming out of the penalty box, he took a pass from Tomas Kopecky. Matthias skated in on Rask, and his wrist shot got past him at 15:54.
Stephen Weiss got an assist on the goal, giving him the Panthers’ franchise record for assists with 232, passing Olli Jokinen.
The Panthers tied it at 1 on Garrison’s goal at 8:28 of the second.
The Panthers brought the puck out from behind the net to Mike Weaver above the right circle. He passed across to Garrison above the left circle, and his slap shot bounced off Boston’s Dennis Seidenberg and into the net. Garrison leads NHL defensemen with 12 goals.
Boston took a 1-0 lead 80 seconds in. Bergeron took a shot from above the high slot that got past Clemmensen on the stick side. It was the fourth straight game the Panthers gave up the first goal.
RED WINGS 5, SABRES 0: Henrik Zetterberg scored the first of Detroit’s three goals in the opening period as the Red Wings broke a franchise record with their 15th straight home victory.
It’s the longest single-season winning streak by an NHL team at home since 1976, when Philadelphia won 20 in a row to match a league mark set by Boston during the 1929-30 season.
The Red Wings won 14 straight at home in 1965.
Jimmy Howard made 27 saves for his fifth shutout this season and NHL-high 27th victory.
JETS 2, SENATORS 0: Chris Mason made 25 saves for his second shutout, and visiting Winnipeg ended a three-game losing streak.
Jim Slater scored 49 seconds in, and Tobias Enstrom scored in the second period.
BLUES 1, STARS 0: Jaroslav Halak made 22 saves for his third shutout of the season and T.J. Oshie scored midway through the third period as St. Louis won at home.
The Blues have earned 13 of 14 points this month (6-0-1) and are tied with the Rangers and Blackhawks atop the NHL standings with 60 points.
COYOTES 6, AVALANCHE 1: Shane Doan and Boyd Gordon scored two goals apiece as Phoenix routed visiting Colorado.
PREDATORS 3, ISLANDERS 1: Sergei Kostitsyn and Matt Halischuk scored on Nashville’s first two shots in a win at Uniondale, N.Y.
The Predators have won 8 of 9 and are 14-4 in their last 18.
NOTES
Washington Capitals defense-man Mike Green will have abdominal surgery and is expected to be sidelined another 4-6 weeks. Green has played only 10 games this season. He was sidelined early in the season because of a sprained right ankle, then injured his groin in early November…. Penguins star Sidney Crosby will meet with a specialist this week because of lingering concussionlike symptoms. The team says Crosby will work with chiropractic neurologist Dr. Ted Carrick, who treated Crosby for last summer…. The Minnesota Wild will likely be without captain Mikko Koivu for at least two weeks because of an upper-body injury…. The Dallas Stars placed center Mike Ribeiro on injured reserve with a lower body injury…. Blue Jackets forward Dane Byers was suspended three games without pay for a shoulder-to-head hit on San Jose’s Andrew Desjardins on Saturday night.
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