Bruins Ring in New Year With 14th Straight Win at Garden

The Boston Bruins are hot people. Let's make that 14 in a row at the Garden and 10 in a row over all. The Bruins took care of the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 tonight at the Garden, moving the Bruins to 62 points, the highest mark in the NHL.

For a team as dominant as the Bruins they sure do fall behind early a lot. It was no different in this one as the Penguins got on the board first thanks to a Dustin Jefferey goal.

The Bruins however, were resilient and knotted the score at one just over a minute later. David Krejci was the beneficiary of a nice pace from Blake Wheeler and tapped in his 14th of the season. Krejci now has a 10 game point streak.

Just before the half way point of the period the Bruins took the lead for good as PJ Axelsson knocked in his first of the season. Marc Savard threw the puck in front of the goal and Ax was able to knock the puck out of the air and into the Pittsburgh goal.

Even with Pittsburgh controlling the shot lead, Boston was controlling puck possession and with that possession took a 3-1 lead. Milan Lucic picked up the puck in the slot and fired a wrister past Dany Sabourin, give the assists to Stephane Yelle and Chuck Kobasew.

The Bruins took a 3-1 lead into the third period, but the Penguins refused to quit. With 13:40 remaining in the period, Ruslan Fedotenko controlled a juicy rebound off his own shot and beat Manny Fernandez under the pads and cut the Boston lead to one.

Just over a minute later Vladimir Sobotka reminded the Penguins that this is the Bruins house, and no visitors would go unpunished. Sobotka laid out Jordan Staal at the Boston blue line and the Garden erupted.

With just over five minutes remaining Marc Savard was sent to the box on a holding call and the Bruins needed to dig deep for a late kill in a one goal game. The Bruins and Manny Fernandez stood tall and Boston kept the lead into the final minutes.

With the Penguins attacking in the final seconds, with their goal empty and the extra attacker on the ice, Savard was able to get the puck along the left wing and fire a shot from the neutral zone into the empty Pittsburgh goal.

The 4-2 final over the Pens gave the Bruins a double digit win steak and the sell out crowd of 17,565 couldn't have been happier. The Bruins are in the midst of a six game home stand and will next face-off against the Buffalo Sabres Saturday afternoon.