Bruins’ David Pastrnak Moves Up On Franchise Goals Leaderboard
Pastrnak is all alone at No. 5
The Boston Bruins saw some movement on their all-time goals leaderboard during Thursday’s matchup with the Winnipeg Jets.
David Pastrnak, in just his second game back after suffering an undisclosed lower-body injury, scored his 403rd career goal to move into sole possession of fifth place on the franchise’s all-time leaderboard — surpassing Rick Middleton.
Pastrnak now trails Johnny Bucyk (545), Phil Esposito (459), Patrice Bergeron (427) and Brad Marchand (422), and is on pace to surpass the latter by the end of this season.
It’s probably unsurprising to learn that the goal came on the power-play, where the four-time All-Star has been especially proficient throughout his career and ranks sixth on the club’s leaderboard in man-advantage goals (128) — trailing Cam Neely (129), Bergeron (131), Esposito (150), Bucyk (157) and Ray Bourque (164).
I’d imagine he rockets up that board relatively soon…
