Pastrnak ties Marchand with two goals as Bruins beat Mammoth 6-1

David Pastrnak got his first two goals of the season, both on the power play, and added two assists as the Boston Bruins beat the Utah Mammoth 6-1 at TD Garden on Thursday.

The two goals brought Pastrnak to 422 in 838 NHL games, level with Brad Marchand for fourth on Boston’s career goals list. Only Johnny Bucyk, Phil Esposito and Patrice Bergeron are ahead of him. Pastrnak also moved past Wayne Cashman into eighth on the Bruins’ assists list with 517.

Boston had gone 0-for-10 with the man advantage through four games. It finished 3-for-4 against a Utah team that came in with the NHL's best power play (8-for-13, 61.5 percent) and went 0-for-7. Morgan Geekie scored the other power-play goal and had two assists, all on the man advantage. Jeremy Swayman made 36 saves for the Bruins (3-2-0).

Casey Mittelstadt opened the scoring at 10:06 of the first period with a wrist shot from the left face-off dot that beat Sebastian Cossa short side. Pastrnak made it 2-0 at 14:22 with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle through a screened Cossa's five-hole. Mason Lohrei followed at 15:51, taking the puck at the offensive blue line, driving down the right side and finishing with a wrist shot to the stick side.

Pastrnak's second came at 4:40 of the second period, a one-timer off a Geekie cross-ice saucer pass that beat Karel Vejmelka high glove. Geekie scored on the power play at 7:57 for 5-0, and Matthew Poitras made it 6-0 at 14:08 off a Pastrnak pass. Cossa allowed three goals on eight shots before Vejmelka relieved him and made 11 saves.

Jack McBain scored for the Mammoth (3-2-0) at 9:48 of the third period, his first point of the season.

Pastrnak is five games into his tenure as captain. “Brad was a heck of a player, to tie him with the goals is amazing,” he told NHL.com. Morgan Geekie said Pastrnak had grown as a leader since Boston’s departures at the 2025 trade deadline.