"Sure enough, it was a testament to the lopsided box score that the Bruins etched on Saturday at TD Garden that Zacha - fresh off of scoring the first hat trick of his NHL career - was only the Third Star on Causeway Street. The Second Star? David Pastrnak - who dished out a whopping six assists to tie a career-high scoring output in a single game. And the First Star? Marat Khusnutdinov - who scored four goals of his own and added a helper to finish with five points, and the first hat trick of his career."
"After suffering a lopsided 6-2 loss at the hands of New York in Boston's annual Black Friday game in November, the Bruins exacted some revenge against their Original Six foe with a record-setting performance on Saturday afternoon. "We had a good day. They had a really bad day," Marco Sturm said. Saturday stood as the first time that the Bruins have scored 10 goals in a single game since Oct. 16, 1988 - a blowout win over the Blackhawks where Cam Neely scored a hat trick and added four assists."
"With both Zacha and Khusnutdinov scoring their first career hat tricks, Saturday marked the first time two Bruins have scored hat tricks in the same game since Jan. 18, 1964. "It took longer than I thought it would," the 28-year-old Zacha said of finally scoring his first hat trick. "I'm just trying to play a two-way game.""
The Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 10-2 at TD Garden, with Marat Khusnutdinov scoring four goals and adding an assist for five points and his first career hat trick. Pavel Zacha recorded the first hat trick of his NHL career, and David Pastrnak supplied six assists to tie a personal single-game high. The win served as revenge after a 6-2 November loss to the Rangers. The Bruins’ 10-goal output was their highest since Oct. 16, 1988, and it marked the first time two Bruins scored hat tricks in the same game since 1964.
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