Patrice Bergeron's Hat Trick Leads The Way In Brooklyn

He responded by scoring a hat trick in a 4-2 victory tonight to help complete the season sweep of the New York Islanders.

The Islanders opened the scoring at the 7:35 mark with Jordan Eberle's second goal in as many games against the Bruins.� Brandon Carlo tried to be cute with a drop pass to Torey Krug while exiting the zone, but it was picked off by Matt Barzal, who feathered a saucer pass across to Eberle for a relatively easy goal.

The lead only lasted about six minutes as Brad Marchand entered the zone and found Bergeron in the right circle where he went bar-down over Jaroslav Halak's right shoulder. David Pastrnak picked up a point with the secondary assist on Bergeron's 17^th goal of the year.

Ryan Spooner gave the Bruins a 2-1 lead with an unassisted goal midway through the second period as he got to a loose puck off an offensive zone draw and quickly backhanded it past Halak for his seventh goal on the season.

The Bruins doubled their lead with a power play goal at 13:49 of the second period.� Torey Krug's shot from the point hit Adam Pelech in the leg and bounced right to the stick of Bergeron, who quickly swept the puck into the New York net.� Spooner was credited with the secondary assist.�

Bergeron completed his second hat trick within the last month about four minutes into the third period.� Marchand set up the play by spinning off the boards and finding Bergeron in the slot while falling down.

Bergeron missed a quick backhand attempt, but he was able to spin around and put the puck past Halak.� Charlie McAvoy picked up the 20^th assist of the season with the secondary helper.

The Islanders took advantage of another Bruins turnover for their second goal at 14:24.� This time Josh Bailey picked off a McAvoy pass below the goal line and got it out to John Tavares out in front of the net for the quick tap-in goal. �However, it was too little too late for the Isles.

Don't look now, but the Bruins 15-game point streak has them putting the pressure on the Tampa Bay Lightning.� The Bruins are know just five points behind the Bolts for first place in the Atlantic Division with a game in hand.�

Bruins are back in action in Montreal on Saturday night.�Seems like the Bruins only play the Habs these days and that is a good thing!�