GAME STORY: Bruins 4, Oilers 1

BOSTON, MA -- Connor McDavid opened the scoring but three unanswered goals to close out the opening period was all the Bruins needed on their way to a 4-1 victory against Edmonton on Thursday night.

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"We were better tonight than we were in Sweden by a longshot," said Oilers head coach Todd McLellan. "But we still didn't play well enough to win."
The Oilers opened the scoring nearly four minutes into the game.
Connor McDavid used his speed to break down the right side, picked up the puck and went in all alone, firing a shot five-hole past Bruins netminder Jaroslav Halak.
Adam Larsson got called for interference eight minutes in, giving the game's first power play to the Bruins. 68 seconds into the man advantage, David Pastrnak scored to tie it at 1-1.
Pastrnak picked up the puck and drove to the net, deking out Matt Benning and then Cam Talbot for a beautiful backhand goal.
"One bad break on the penalty kill, obviously. That hurt. But we didn't have a lot of offence early in the game and when we finally did, the bounces didn't go our way in and around the crease. But we've got to do things better early in the game to stay in it."
"I thought we had the start that we wanted to have," the coach continued. "We got off to a good start, got the lead (but then) got into penalty trouble in the first period and they capitalized on it."
Tempers flared with 6:06 to play in the opening stanza after Khaira bumped Bruins defenceman Brandon Carlo into the end boards deep in the Boston zone. Result was another Bruins power play and another Bruins power play goal.
Brad Marchand's pass went off the leg of Drake Caggiula and in past Talbot to put the Bruins in front, 43 seconds into the man advantage for Boston's second power-play marker of the game. 36 seconds later, Joakim Nordstrom completed a give-and-go with a redirection past Talbot to extend Boston's lead to two goals at 3-1.
"We cheated a little bit there," McLellan said of the Bruins' third goal. "It was a 50/50 puck and in fact they were cheating as well. Their cheat beat our cheat. They ended up with a three-on-one. Everybody was on the wrong side of the puck on both teams but they took advantage of that situation and they scored."
Charlie McAvoy got two minutes for interference, giving the Oilers their first power play chance in the game with 3:15 to play in the first but it was shortlived. Marchand got in behind the Oilers defence while shorthanded and tried to backhand it past Talbot but the Oilers goaltender got a piece of it. Oscar Klefbom also got a piece of Marchand with his stick and was sent off for slashing, ending the Edmonton man advantage.
"When we had our chance to potentially come back in the first and sway the momentum we took a penalty on our power play and that killed things for us at that point," McLellan pointed out. "It's still not enough offensive opportunities sprinkled throughout the lineup. It tends to come from two or three players and we're still giving up too many chances against so we've got things to work on and things to fix."

After one period, shots on goal were 15-11 for the Bruins.
Less than four minutes into the second period, Jujhar Khaira dropped the gloves with Kevan Miler for a spirited bout at the Oilers blueline that was eventually broken up by the officials.
A minute later, Tobias Rieder redirected a feed from Leon Draisaitl but Halak was very sharp in getting his pad on that bouncing puck.
The game started to get chippy in the latter half of the second period. Caggiula got into a brief skirmish with David Backes after laying out the Bruins centre. Each got two minutes for roughing. Sean Kuraly hit Matt Benning into the end boards with such force that the glass popped out.
The Oilers started to pick up their play as the period went on. Boston only had one shot on goal through the period's final 11 minutes while Oilers had five.
Closest the Oilers came to scoring in the third was when Halak got a piece of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins' shot from the slot and the puck rolled along the line before it was swatted away by Zdeno Chara.
Bergeron added an empty-net goal in the final minute.
Nugent-Hopkins said after the game that it was important the Oilers offensive players don't get upset by the lack of output this early in the season.
"It's game two, we can't get frustrated," Nugent-Hopkins said. "There's 80 games to go. Guys will produce. We have the confidence that we have the guys in the room to do that. We're not going to start panicking because we only have three goals."