BOSTON — The Bruins' win streak is no more, erased in the flash of a pass defenseman Dennis Seidenberg would give anything to have back.
Seidenberg 's pass out of his zone was picked off by Pittsburgh forward Dustin Jeffrey, who then skated around Seidenberg and in alone on Tim Thomas, tucking the puck into the Bruins' net with 3:08 left in overtime to give the Penguins a 3-2 victory Saturday night at the Garden.
"I made a very nice pass to the wrong guy," Seidenberg said. "It's frustrating because the guys battled back and I give the puck away and get caught flat-footed and they score. It's not fun."
The finish to this memorable run certainly wasn't fun, but the ride to get there was pretty entertaining. The Bruins rattled off a season-high seven straight wins, including their first 6-0-0 road trip since 1972. Even in Saturday's loss, they provided plenty of excitement early with a pair of fights and a bunch of big hits, the best of which was delivered by Seidenberg when he caught Kris Letang at the blue line late in a third-period Pittsburgh power play.
The Bruins also added some drama in this one, with David Krejci scoring with just 32.5 seconds left in regulation and Thomas pulled for the extra attacker to tie the game and earn Boston at least one point.
"I don't think we played our best game," Krejci said. "I am positive if we played our game then we would win. We gave them too many shots in the first two periods. That can't happen. We tied the game and played pretty hard. We had a bad break and they got a lucky one in overtime."
This definitely wasn't the Bruins at their best. The Penguins, despite having eight players out injured and having played another overtime game the night before in New Jersey, had better jump and outskated and outhustled the Bruins most of the night. 
It wasn't until the third period that the Bruins finally started to match that energy, with Claude Julien shuffling the lines and Krejci breaking through late.
"I thought that we didn't have our best game, that's for sure," said Bruins captain Zdeno Chara, who opened the scoring with his first goal since scoring a hat trick against Carolina back on Jan. 17.
"We were just, we had heavy legs. We didn't skate well. We didn't move the puck well.
"On the other side, Pittsburgh played extremely well," Chara added. "They put a lot of pressure on us. They took away space and time and we couldn't create much. They even had back-to-back games. They had pretty good jump and energy. It almost felt like we were the team who played last night. But it's going to happen. You're going to have games like this where we were just slow and not moving the puck as well as we used to. But we worked extremely hard in the third and earned that point. That's the positive. Obviously we'd like to get two but it happens."
It is a positive sign that even on a night that the Bruins didn't have their A game, they found a way to compete and earn a point. That point could be a valuable one too, as it moved them within two of Philadelphia for the Eastern Conference lead and kept them five ahead of Montreal. The Canadiens are Boston's closest pursuer in the Northeast Division, and next up for the Bruins is a key showdown at the Bell Centre on Tuesday.
"It's tough when you lose a tight one like that, especially after tying it up there at the end," Bruins forward Michael Ryder said. "I think we got a point out of it and that's a positive thing. We have a game Tuesday against Montreal. We've got to look past tonight and get ready for them."
The Bruins will take the positives out of getting the point, but they'll also have to take some lessons on the total commitment they need to maintain if they want to keep picking up two points at a time down the stretch.
"To me, we played probably half a game," Julien said. "The first half of the first period I thought we started off well and then the second half of the first we just slipped. And same thing in the second period. I thought our third period we battled a lot better. And every once in a while you rely on that sixth attacker to help you gain a point and we'll take that tonight. But you know lately we've been winning games because we've played sixty minutes and tonight that wasn't the case."
