BOSTON — Two streaks came to a sudden end at TD Garden on Saturday.
The Columbus Blue Jackets, getting a winning goal from left winger Matt Calvert with 3:03 left, ended their four-game losing streak and Boston’s five-game winning run with a 3-1 decision over the Bruins.
Calvert pushed home a loose puck sitting in the goal crease after Tuukka Rask had stopped right winger Cam Atkinson’s shot from the slot. The puck trickled in behind Rask and a diving Calvert barely out-reached defenseman Torey Krug.
Calvert then scored his sixth goal of the season into an open net with 37.3 seconds left as the Bruins suffered their first regulation loss in 10 games — since losing to the Blue Jackets on Dec. 27 in Columbus.
Backup goaltender Curtis McElhinney made 34 saves and was outstanding in the third period in earning his fourth win of the season, his second over the Bruins.
Center Ryan Johansen, who scored the first Columbus goal, assisted on the empty netter.
Rask, who played a strong game, with 28 saves, including a breakaway after Calvert broke the tie, slammed his stick on the ice when he returned to the net after the empty-net goal. Then, when the final horn sounded, he bolted directly off the ice and to the dressing room.
The Blue Jackets, who came in with the No. 3 power play in the NHL, had scored a power-play goal in four straight games before coming up empty against the New York Rangers Friday night. But they made it five in six games when Johansen extended his point-scoring streak to 13 straight games (15 points) with a wrist shot to the top corner from the top of the faceoff circle to Rask’s right.
The Bruins got the goal back later in the period, cashing in on the hard work of left winger Chris Kelly. He shook the puck loose against the boards and sent the puck across the slot. Right winger Loui Eriksson slowed the pass down, also throwing off the timing of McElhinney, and the puck went to Soderberg for his 10th of the season.
With the Bruins already missing left winger Brad Marchand because of a two-game suspension from the league, Soderberg caught Calvert with a forearm to the head in the second period and could get a call from the league.