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Rapid Reaction: Penguins 3, Bruins 2

BOSTON -- On a night when all eyes were on David Pastrnak's NHL debut for the Boston Bruins, the Pittsburgh Penguins finished with a 3-2 overtime win Monday at TD Garden.

The Penguins' Evgeni Malkin scored only 32 seconds into overtime for the victory.

Milan Lucic and Joe Morrow scored for the Bruins, while goaltender Tuukka Rask finished with 30 saves.

Pittsburgh received a pair of goals from Malkin, while Sidney Crosby contributed one.

The Penguins gained a 1-0 lead at 3:33 of the first period when Crosby netted his ninth goal of the season. The Bruins were caught scrambling in their own end when Crosby collected the loose puck and beat Rask.

It appeared the Bruins had tied the game at the 10-minute mark of the first period, but after review it was ruled that Patrice Bergeron knocked the puck in with a high stick and the goal was disallowed.

Boston tied the game at 1-1 when Lucic finished a nifty tape-to-tape passing sequence between Carl Soderberg and Loui Eriksson at 1:43 of the second period. That line created pressure when Soderberg fed Eriksson, who quickly threaded a cross-crease pass to a wide open Lucic for the goal.

It then took the Bruins only 38 seconds to gain a 2-1 lead on Morrow's goal at 2:11. His wrist shot from the left point found its way through a Gregory Campbell screen in front and beat Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. It was Morrow's first NHL goal.

Pittsburgh capitalized on a man-advantage when Malkin scored a power-play goal at 9:42 of the second period to tie the game at 2-2. It was his ninth goal of the season.

With the game knotted at two apiece, Soderberg thought he had the go-ahead goal at 10:53 of the period, but the on-ice officials signaled Soderberg knocked the puck in with his glove, and after review the call stood.

After a scoreless third period, Malkin finished it in overtime.

HE'S BACK: After missing three games with an undisclosed injury, Bruins forward Brad Marchand returned to the lineup. He was reunited with linemates Reilly Smith and Bergeron. Marchand showed no ill effects from his injury. However, he did miss a couple of shifts in the third period when coach Claude Julien decided to put Pastrnak on the second line. With Marchand back and Pastrnak making his debut, forward Matt Fraser was a healthy scratch.

DROP ZONE: The Bruins are perennially one of the top faceoff teams in the league with the likes of David Krejci, Bergeron, Soderberg and Campbell as responsible centermen. On Monday, the Penguins dominated the dots early, but Boston responded. In the first period, Pittsburgh had a 15-5 advantage, but the Bruins evened it at 21-21 after two periods. The Penguins finished with a marginal victory in the category, 27-25.