BOSTON — The Bruins notched their 61st victory of the season. They can only hope that it wasn’t a costly one.
David Pastrnak, who committed a bad turnover earlier in the game, blasted a one-timer past Ilya Samsonov at 2:30 of overtime to lift the Bruins to a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs at TD Garden. It was Pastrnak’s 57th of the year, coming off a nice feed from Dmitry Orlov on a 4-on-4 just after a Leaf penalty was up.
But the Bruins have to be holding their collective breath after Charlie McAvoy left the game in the second period when he crashed hard into the boards and did not return. It was announced he had an upper body injury.