By KEN POWTAK Related Press

BOSTON – Linus Ullmark made 40 saves, Jake DeBrusk had the go-ahead aim and the NHL-best Boston Bruins continued their pursuit of the league’s file for regular-season victories with a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday evening. 

David Krejci added a power-play aim for Boston, which received its fourth straight. 

Dylan Gambrell scored for the Senators and Mads Sogaard made 33 stops. 

The Bruins posted their 54th win and with 12 video games left are on tempo to interrupt the mark of 62, set by the Detroit Purple Wings in 1995-96 and matched by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2018-19. 

Two of Boston’s wins have are available shootouts. The league launched shootouts to determine ties after additional time in 2005-06. 

Earlier than that, video games resulted in ties after OT, which was introduced in for regular-season video games in 1983. 

Ullmark improved to 35-5-1. 

Chasing the Japanese Convention’s eighth and last playoff spot, Ottawa has misplaced six of seven following a season-high, five-game profitable streak. 

Coming off a 3-2 highway journey the place they received the final three video games by a mixed rating of 15-2 that included two shutouts by backup Jeremy Swayman, the Bruins transformed on a two-man, power-play benefit to tie the sport at 1 halfway into the opening interval when Krejci poked in a rebound from the sting of the crease. 

DeBrusk accomplished a nifty play with Brad Marchand when he collected a move slicing down the slot at full pace, shifted and tucked a rebound previous Sogaard at 15:52 of the primary interval for his twenty third aim. 

Gambrell’s wraparound rating gave Ottawa a 1-0 edge. 

HEAVY WORKLOAD 

Ullmark stopped 22 pictures within the second interval with at the very least a dozen of them high-quality probabilities. Throughout an Ottawa PP, he jumped from a crouch to make a right-shoulder cease on Alex DeBrincat’s bid from in shut. 

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY 

Bruins legend and Corridor of Famer Bobby Orr turned 75 on Monday. 

WOMEN IN SPORTS NIGHT 

The Bruins highlighted girls who work and compete within the sports activities neighborhood, having Olympic gold medalist and Boston Pleasure defender Kali Flanagan accompany Bruins gamers throughout pregame walk-ins together with native highschool scholastic award winners. As well as, in-arena host Michaela Johnson dealt with the PA for the evening and so they additionally left yellow roses on the seats of feminine reporters. 

NOTES: The Senators entered the sport as the one group holding a bonus of their collection towards the Bruins this season, profitable twice in three video games. … Boston coach Jim Montgomery stated after the morning skate that defenseman Derek Forbort would doubtless be sidelined with a lower-body damage at the very least by the remainder of the common season. … DeBrusk, enjoying on the highest line many of the season, is 4 off his career-high aim complete, set in 2018-19. 

UP NEX 

Senators: Host Tampa Bay on Thursday.
Bruins: Host longtime rival Montreal in an Authentic Six matchup Thursday.