Bruins 4, Ducks 2: Three Power-Play Goals and DiPietro's First Win

October 16, 2026 - Anaheim - Tim Washe's wrist from above the left circle went through Jeff Malott's legs and through Michael DiPietro. Twenty-one seconds later Beckett Sennecke redirected one at the far post. Honda Center was 2-0 with 17 seconds left in the first. DiPietro still left with the puck under his pad.

The Boston Bruins beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-2. Boston is 6-2-0, four in a row. Anaheim is 4-3-0, three straight home losses while giving up 13 goals, the Associated Press recap said. Shots were 27-22 Anaheim. Attendance was 17,174. The Ducks have sold out Honda Center for the first four games of a season for the first time since 2007, that same recap said.

DiPietro, Frederic Brunet, James Hagens, Pavel Zacha, Matthew Poitras, Charlie McAvoy, Fraser Minten, Casey Mittelstadt, Marat Khusnutdinov, Tim Washe, Jeff Malott, Nikita Nesterenko, Tristan Luneau, Roger McQueen, and Noah Warren are not seeded on AthX player pages, so those names stay unlinked.

David Pastrnak and Elias Lindholm each had a goal and an assist. Brunet scored his first NHL goal. Hagens and Zacha each had two assists. DiPietro stopped 25 of 27 for his first NHL win, the NHL recap said. Lukas Dostal stopped 18 of 22.

Two in 21 seconds, then Brunet's burger

Washe scored at 19:22 of the first. The NHL recap put him above the left circle, puck along the ice, through Malott, through a screened DiPietro. Luneau and Jackson LaCombe the assists.

Sennecke made it 2-0 at 19:43. He intercepted a clearing pass, found Cutter Gauthier, who touched it to Nesterenko, who fed Sennecke cutting to the far post. Fifth goal of the season for Sennecke. Marco Sturm told NHL.com Anaheim came out with a lot of juice the first half, and that a young team has a hard time keeping that tempo for 60 minutes.

Brunet trimmed it to 2-1 at 3:15 of the second on the power play, his sixth NHL game. He settled a Hagens pass just inside the blue line. The snap fluttered through Dostal. Brunet told NHL.com it was probably the worst shot of his career, a burger, and there was no way that went in. The Bruins club recap quoted him on DiPietro, a Providence teammate: one of the hardest workers he has played with, and nobody deserves the first win more.

DiPietro had just stopped Nesterenko on a short-handed breakaway, the NHL recap said. Nikita Zadorov took a double-minor for elbowing and roughing Frank Vatrano with a minute left in the second. Anaheim's four-minute look ran into the third and died when McQueen took interference with 38 seconds left on the second penalty. Joel Quenneville told NHL.com they had great looks and did not have the finish.

Pastrnak to 423, Lindholm in front, Poitras on a 2-on-1

Boston tied it 2-2 at 3:26 of the third on the power play that followed. Pastrnak's pass for Lindholm was broken up by Warren. The puck came back. Pastrnak slid a backhand into the open net. Morgan Geekie had kept it in. Zacha dumped it to the crease. Lindholm told the Bruins site he tried to shoot and it just went back. Lucky.

The Associated Press recap called it Pastrnak's 423rd career goal, past Brad Marchand for sole fourth in Bruins history. Johnny Bucyk, Phil Esposito, and Patrice Bergeron sit ahead. The Bruins recap said it extended a four-game point streak (three goals, five assists).

Lindholm scored the go-ahead goal at 8:18, another power play, tap from Zacha at the right doorstep. Sturm, on NHL.com: since Day 1 at camp he has had a really good jump. Too many people don't give him credit. Lindholm told the Bruins site it was the first time in a long time his body felt good.

Poitras made it 4-2 at 16:20 on a 2-on-1 with Hagens, past Dostal's right pad. Hagens' first two-point NHL night, the Bruins recap said. Sturm: they should play with confidence. He gives them the opportunities.

Boston finished 3-for-4 on the power play after entering 3-for-18, the NHL recap said. Anaheim was 0-for-5 after killing 11 straight penalties coming in. Lindholm went 18-for-23 on faceoffs. Boston was 40-for-58 (69 percent). Gauthier played center for the first time in his NHL career, 4-for-20, filling in for Mikael Granlund (upper body, day to day). Gauthier had missed Tuesday's 4-2 loss to Calgary with an upper-body injury of his own, the NHL recap said.

DiPietro, 27, told the Bruins site it was a dramatic way to get the first one, and that he did not make it easy on himself. The puck was going under his pillow, then in his pocket, then on the plane. Sturm called him Boston's best killer. LaCombe said Anaheim is starting well, which it did not do as much last season, and that the compete and the details have to last the whole game.

Boston visits Los Angeles on Saturday. Anaheim visits the Rangers on Monday.

AthX Engine on an 18.80 road comeback

AthX Engine (our projection and scoring system) scored Pastrnak at 9.90 (a goal, an assist, four shots, one block, plus the power-play bonus). Lindholm is 7.60. Hagens and Brunet are 7.20 each. Zacha is 5.60. Poitras is 5.20. Washe is 5.10. DiPietro's win, 25 saves, and two goals against land at 10.60. Dostal is 2.40.

Boston's team line is 18.80. Anaheim's 2-4 is 0.40.

Fantasy points measure the box. Price is what traders will pay for a Bruins power play that went 3-for-4 on the road, and for a Ducks group that led 2-0 in a sold-out building and scored zero after 19:43. They are not the same number.

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*Sources: AP recap (ESPN), ESPN box score, NHL.com recap, Bruins.com recap, NHL.com scoreboard, ESPN NHL scoreboard. AthX Engine fantasy points scored from NHL gamecenter box 2026020120. Information only; not financial advice.*