BOSTON — Defenseman Dougie Hamilton scored with 1:21 left in overtime to give Boston a 2-1 victory over Winnipeg on Friday night, the Bruins’ 13th straight home win over the Jets’ two-city franchise.
Hamilton, who assisted on Milan Lucic’s tying goal in the second period, took a pass from center Carl Soderberg and beat former Bruins draft pick Michael Hutchinson for Soderberg’s second assist of the game.
The goal was the fifth of the season for Hamilton.
The Winnipeg franchise hasn’t won in Boston since March 31, 2007, when the Jets were the Atlanta Thrashers.
The Bruins killed a double-minor high sticking penalty on left winger Brad Marchand with 3:30 left in regulation. The last 30 seconds came on a four-on-three for the first 30 seconds of overtime.
The loss deprived the Jets (12-9-4) a sweep of a three-game road trip in the Eastern Conference. They have a West-high eight wins over the East.
Hutchinson, cut loose by the Bruins before signing with Winnipeg last season, was brilliant in goal, making 36 saves. He came into the game with a league-best 1.50 goals-against average and the overtime loss dropped him to 4-1-2 for the season.
Tuukka Rask stopped 35 shots for the Bruins, who ended a two-game losing streak to move to 14-9-1.
Defenseman-right winger Dustin Byfuglien scored a power play goal for the Jets in the first period before Lucic tied it 3:05 into the third.
The new Bruins line of center Patrice Bergeron, rookie right winger David Pastrnak and left winger Marchand combined for 14 shots on goals, seven of them by the 18-year-old Pastrnak, playing in his second NHL game.
Both teams wasted a power play early, and the Jets looked like their second one was going nowhere when Byfuglien scored. Standing at the point, Byfuglien, playing forward in the game, waited for a screen to form in front and then sent a wrist shot through that screen for his 14th point in 16 career games against Boston.
It was the fourth power play goal in three games for the Jets, who ended an 0-for-25 spell with two power play scores at Columbus on Tuesday night and then another at Buffalo on Wednesday night.
The score stayed at 1-0 until Lucic worked a give-and-go with Soderberg and tipped the tying goal past Hutchinson.
Winnipeg center Bryan Little left the game with 19:37 left in the third period after stopping a Soderberg shot with what looked like his right knee. He had to be helped off the ice and didn’t return.
NOTES: LW Adam Lowry was out for Winnipeg, serving a one-game suspension for his hit on Buffalo’s Patrick Kaleta on Wednesday night in Buffalo. D Toby Enstrom missed the Jets’ three-game road trip with an upper body injury and C Mathieu Perrault returned to the lineup Friday night after missing the game in Buffalo with an upper-body injury. … C Chris Kelly returned to the Boston lineup after missing two games with an upper-body injury that was not his head or back. … Winnipeg G Michael Hutchinson was a third-round draft pick of the Bruins (77th overall) in the 2008 draft. … The Bruins start a four-game western trip in Anaheim on Monday night. The Jets are off until Wednesday when they host the Edmonton Oilers to start a three-game homestand. They hope to have Enstrom back on Wednesday. … With the Celtics playing a day game at TD Garden, the Bruins didn’t have a morning skate. The Jets skated at nearby Boston University.
Red Wings 5, Devils 4 (SO)
Former University of Maine star Gustav Nyquist scored the lone goal of the shootout as visiting Detroit rallied from a three-goal deficit to edge New Jersey.
Nyquist fired the puck into the top right corner of the net to start the third round of the bonus format, and Petr Mrazek (21 saves) denied Michael Ryder on the Devils’ final opportunity. Riley Sheahan, Xavier Ouellet, Justin Abdelkader and Drew Miller scored in regulation while captain Henrik Zetterberg and defenseman Niklas Kronwall each notched two assists for the Red Wings, who improved to 2-0-0 versus New Jersey this season.
Mike Cammalleri registered his second two-goal effort of the campaign, Jaromir Jagr recorded a tally and an assist and defenseman Peter Harrold also scored for the Devils, who lost for the ninth time in 12 games. Jagr’s goal was the 709th of his career, moving him past Mike Gartner for sixth place on the all-time list.
Jagr opened the scoring 2:18 into the contest by chipping a rebound past Mrazek, but Sheahan tipped Kronwall’s one-timer between the pads of Cory Schneider (28 saves) during a power play 92 seconds later to forge a tie. The Devils cashed in on a man advantage 10 minutes afterward, when Cammalleri scored on a wrist shot from above the left faceoff circle, and Harrold beat Mrazek from the right circle 86 seconds later to make it 3-1.
Cammalleri expanded the lead 28 seconds into the second period with a one-timer from the bottom of the right circle while on the power play before Ouellet began Detroit’s comeback by converting Darren Helm’s pass at 1:55. Zetterberg set up Abdelkader in front for a man-advantage tally with 7:08 left in the session and Miller buried a loose puck on the doorstep midway through the third to knot the contest.