David Pastrnak collected the puck behind the Colorado and drew the attention of the Avalanche defense as he moved toward the front. He fed Geekie, who tapped it in, 5:44 into the third period to give the Bruins a 2-1 lead. They held on from there until Pastrnak sealed it with an empty-netter.

The Bruins played rope-a-dope game for two periods before Morgan Geekie scored two early third-period goals off a pair of beautiful David Pastrnak assists to lift the B’s over the Colorado Avalanche,

DiPietro was sent to AHL Providence on Friday, Mark Divver of the New England Hockey Journal reports. DiPietro was recalled by Boston on Thursday, and he served as the backup goaltender during the team's 2-0 win over Ottawa.

As if things couldn’t get more troublesome for the Bruins, the player who is chiefly responsible for the earning points in four of their last five games is on the shelf. Jeremy Swayman, whom B’s coach Joe Sacco pulled after two periods on Wednesday in New Jersey partly because he was “dealing with something minor,