The defenseman’s gritty showing in the Boston Bruins’ 3-2 overtime victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday at TD Garden spoke to one of the reasons the team has strung together a five-game win streak. Players are giving their all for one another.

When the injury bug hits, it's jarring and sudden. The Boston Bruins (9-7-0) will be familiar with that after tonight. Despite it, the Bruins won their fifth-straight game, knocking off the Ottawa Senators (6-5-3) 3-2 in overtime on Thursday night in TD Garden.

BOSTON — The Bruins are down another forward after Johnny Beecher suffered an upper-body injury in Thursday’s 3-2 overtime win over the Senators. Beecher took a hit from Kurtis MacDermid late in the first period and did not return.

Pavel Zacha scored with 5.6 seconds remaining in overtime, and the Boston Bruins extended their winning streak to five games with a 3-2 victory against the Ottawa Senators at TD Garden on Thursday. Charlie McAvoy picked up a loose puck in the left corner and skated all the way across the zone before sliding a shot on net from along the goal line.

RECAP: The Bruins are on their longest winning streak in over a calendar year thanks to Thursday's overtime win over the Senators in Boston.

The Atlantic Division rivals, the Ottawa Senators and the Boston Bruins, are facing off for the second time this season on Thursday. Ottawa lost to the Senators 7-2 at the end of October.

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Marat Khustnutdinov, who took a few shifts at top-line center after Elias Lindholm left the game, scored his first goal in overtime.

Mick Cronin and the No. 12 UCLA Bruins officially tip off the highly-anticipated 2025-26 season against the Big Sky's Eastern Washington Eagles. Backed by UCLA's star-studded transfer portal addition of Donovan Dent, the Bruins' ceiling is higher than it's been in recent season, and yet Westwood still has its fair share of doubters.