BOSTON - Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron is scheduled to get married this summer. If he wants to hold the wedding in a place he loves, linemate Jaromir Jagr has an idea.

"I never really see a more hungry guy in the defensive zone. I said that before, I think he even likes to be in the defensive zone. I think he loves it," Jagr said after the Bruins won Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final by beating the Chicago Blackhawks 2-0 on Monday night at TD Garden.

"He's just, you know, he's so responsible with every puck and he wants to win every puck on the boards in the defensive zone. So it makes it a lot easier for me and [Brad Marchand]."

Bergeron makes the most of every second he's in the defensive zone, although that isn't usually a lot of time when he's playing his best and helping get pucks out. In the win Monday night against Chicago that put the Bruins up 2-1 in the best-of-7 series heading into Game 4 on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET, NBC, CBC, RDS), Bergeron's stick was in every passing lane, he was positioned almost perfectly for every battle and he proved how much he loves to win faceoffs.

Marian Hossa

Right Wing - CHI

GOALS: 7 | ASST: 8 | PTS: 15
SOG: 65 | +/-: 8

Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said after the 2-0 loss to the Boston Bruins that Hossa is "day-to-day" with an upper-body injury. There were reports that something happened to Hossa during the pregame warmup, in which he participated, but Quenneville said the injury had nothing to do with what transpired during the skate.

Regardless of where the injury took place, the Blackhawks felt Hossa's absence.

"He's a big loss for our team," Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith said. "I don't know what his status is, so it's tough to comment. But I think we had guys step in and playing different roles. I thought the lines got some chances, even though we were missing Hossa."

Hossa is tied for the team lead with 15 points during the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. He is third on the team with seven goals and 65 shots on goal.

BOSTON -- Claude Julien's self-proclaimed "hunch from a coach" has turned into a major reason why the Boston Bruins are two wins shy of raising the Stanley Cup again.

Julien, the Bruins' coach, first showcased his retooled third line of Chris Kelly, Daniel Paille and Tyler Seguin early in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday at United Center because Boston was getting beaten soundly at that point and he felt the reconfigured line maybe could help the Bruins turn the momentum.

They did and Paille wound up scoring the overtime winner. They remained together for Game 3 on Monday night at TD Garden and, again, Paille scored the winning goal in 2-0 victory by the Bruins that gave them a 2-1 lead against the Chicago Blackhawks in the best-of-7 series.

Paille's winner came 2:13 into the second period of Game 3, off assists from Kelly and Seguin, who also had the primary assist on his OT winner Saturday.

It appears Logan Couture is going to remain with the San Jose Sharks for a while.

According to TSN's Bob McKenzie, Couture inked a new five-year extension worth $6 million per season.

Couture had 21 goals and 16 assists in 48 games during the 2012-13 season for San Jose and added five goals and six assists in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Sharks swept the Vancouver Canucks in the opening round before falling to the Los Angeles Kings in the Western Conference Semifinals in seven games.

Couture was San Jose’s first-round pick (No. 9) at the 2007 NHL Draft. He has 89 goals and 78 assists in 232 regular-season games and is 17-16-33 in 49 playoff contests.

After two knock-down, drag-out overtime games at United Center, the Boston Bruins made it look easy at home.

Goals by Daniel Paille and Patrice Bergeron, along with a flawless 28-save effort by Tuukka Rask, carried the Bruins to a 2-0 victory against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday night. The Bruins lead the series 2-1 and can take command by winning Game 4 at TD Garden on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET; NBC, CBC, RDS).

Here are some of the key facts and figures from Game 3:

0 -- Playoff goals this spring for Boston's Jaromir Jagr, who has never gone without a goal in any postseason in which he has played more than three games. Jagr does have eight assists, including the primary helper on Boston's second goal.

1 -- Shot on goal by Chicago forward Ben Smith, who played his first game in this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs. Smith got the call when Chicago star Marian Hossa was a late scratch due to an upper-body injury.

The town of Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario will be the place to be the weekend of Sept. 13.

The winner of 2013 Kraft Hockeyville learned Monday night that the Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets will play a preseason game at Yardmen Arena in nearby Belleville. The preseason contest is a highlight of winning the Kraft Hockeyville competition, along with the $100,000 the town has already received from Kraft Canada to upgrade the Stirling District Recreation Centre.

"The National Hockey League is proud to conduct Kraft Hockeyville and is absolutely delighted that this unique initiative will resume in September," NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said. "I already have congratulated Stirling-Rawdon for its passion and spirit; today I applaud its patience and look forward to the excitement the community will enjoy when the Jets and Capitals take the ice in the Kraft Hockeyville game that always is a highlight of our preseason."

Multiple media reports, including TSN's Darren Dreger, said Monday that the contract is worth $10 million. The New York Daily News reports that Vigneault will be introduced as the Rangers' new coach on Thursday.

Vigneault notified the Dallas Stars on Friday that he was withdrawing from consideration for their coaching position.

The Minnesota Wild re-signed restricted free-agent defenseman Marco Scandella to a two-year contract on Monday. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the deal will pay Scandella $900,000 in 2013-14 and $1.15 million in '14-15, for an average annual value of $1.05 million.

Scandella, a 23-year-old Montreal native, played in all five of the Wild's playoff games against the Chicago Blackhawks during this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs, scoring a goal and adding an assist while averaging 18:01 of ice time. He had a goal in six regular-season games with the Wild after scoring twice and finishing with 17 points in 45 games with the Houston Aeros, the Wild's American Hockey League affiliate.

Scandella has four goals and 15 points in 89 games during parts of three seasons with the Wild, which selected him in the second round (No. 55) of the 2008 NHL Draft.

BOSTON -- As the top-ranked prospect among North American skaters according to NHL Central Scouting, defenseman Seth Jones was expected to be at the Stanley Cup Final meeting players, coaches and countless media in anticipation of the NHL Draft on June 30 in Newark, N.J.

The busy day in Boston, which culminated in Jones and three other top prospects attending Game 3 at TD Garden, is a welcome return to the Final for Jones, who attended last year's Cup-clinching Game 6 at Staples Center as the Los Angeles Kings won their first championship.

But his first trip to the Final came 12 years ago, when a six-year-old Jones attended Game 7 with his family in Colorado. The hometown Avalanche topped the New Jersey Devils 3-1 that night to clinch the franchise's second Stanley Cup, a historic hockey moment that set in motion the events that 12 years later would make Jones one of the top young prospects in the game.

The Philadelphia Flyers have come to terms with defenseman Mark Streit on a four-year contract, according to a report from TSN's Darren Dreger.

The Flyers acquired the rights to Streit last week from the New York Islanders in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2014 NHL Draft.

The 35-year-old Streit, who served as the Islanders captain, was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on July 5. He finished the 2012-13 regular season with six goals and 27 points in 45 games, then added two goals and five points in six Stanley Cup Playoff games.