BOSTON — The Bruins and their incredible run of home success appeared to be toast in the first period on Thursday at TD Garden. They were being outplayed, outworked and outscored by two goals and the Winnipeg Jets' terrific goalie Connor Hellebuyck was on his game.
But then Christmas came early in the second period, in the form of an incredibly fortunate bounce to start them on the comeback trail. They wiped out a two-goal deficit to to beat the Jets, 3-2, and extend their home record to 18-0-2.
Nick Foligno,who had a hand in the earlier fortunate goal, gave the Bruins their first lead of the game at 11:08 of the third period, taking a feed from Charlie Coyle in the slot and ripping it past Connor Hellebuyck’s glove arm to make it 3-2.
