Boston’s Brad Marchand, second from left, Connor Clifton, left, and Derek Forbort celebrate Marchand’s goal against the Winnipeg Jets during the second period Friday in Winnipeg, Manitoba. John Woods/The Canadian Press via APAP
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Taylor Hall scored a power-play goal with 4:47 left in the third period and the Boston Bruins beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-2 Friday night.
Brad Marchand and Trent Frederic also scored, and Charlie McAvoy added a short-handed empty-netter for Boston, which has won four of its last five. Charlie Coyle picked up three assists and McAvoy had one.
Linus Ullmark made 27 saves for the Bruins, who were without captain Patrice Bergeron (arm) for a second straight game. He was replaced by Jack Studnicka between Marchand and Jake DeBrusk.
Adam Lowry and Nikolaj Ehlers scored for Winnipeg, which had won four of its last five games. Connor Hellebuyck stopped 41 shots.
Late in the third period, Hall took advantage of a bouncing puck in front of the net and put a rebound past Hellebuyck for his 13th goal of the season to give the Bruins a 3-2 lead.
McAvoy added a short-handed empty-netter in the final minute to seal Boston’s win.
Forward Andrew Copp was back on the ice for the Jets. He missed one game for precautionary reasons after taking a heavy hit in last Sunday’s game against St. Louis.
Boston outshot Winnipeg 14-11 in the first period and 22-4 in the second.
Ehlers got a penalty shot 4:34 into opening period after being tripped by Mike Reilly. The speedy forward chose to go in slow at Ullmark, who turned aside the shot with a pad.
Both teams had a power play, with Hellebuyck making a quick stop on David Pastrnak, who was playing in his 500th career NHL game.
In the second period, Winnipeg didn’t get a shot on goal until 12:36 in, while the Bruins had 15 at that point, including two that went into the net.
Marchand began the scoring at 4:42 on a 2 on 1 with DeBrusk, getting his 25th goal of the season.
Frederic made it 2-0 when the puck was inadvertently tapped to him in the slot and he went to the side of Hellebuyck and put a backhand behind the goalie at 7:12.
The Jets didn’t start slow in the third period, putting 10 shots at Ullmark in the first six minutes and scoring on two.
Lowry tipped in Evgeny Svechnikov’s shot at 2:29 and Ehlers made it 2-2 at 3:54. Kyle Connor assisted on Ehlers’ goal, extending his point streak to six games with five goals and six assists.
Pastrnak went to the penalty box at 6:59 for hooking, but Ullmark denied Mark Scheifele in a scramble in front of the net and stopped three other scoring attempts.
The Bruins had the man advantage twice in the final eight minutes of the third and Hall made good on the second opportunity.
Winnipeg pulled Hellebuyck for the extra attacker with 1:39, then got another body when Boston forward Erik Haula was called for tripping 6 seconds later, but McAvoy got his empty-netter with 31 seconds left.
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