Pavel Zacha and Elias Lindholm each capped off two-goal performances with insurance markers late in the third period, leading the Boston Bruins to a 6-3 win over the visiting Minnesota Wild on Saturday.

Zacha’s first goal lifted him to the 25-goal mark for the first time in his career. Eleven of his 26 tallies have come in March alone.

Viktor Arvidsson logged a goal and an assist, Andrew Peeke also scored, and David Pastrnak dished out two assists to run his point streak to 12 consecutive games for Boston (41-24-8, 90 points), which is 5-1-2 in its last eight games.

Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman made 31 saves.

Ryan Hartman and Mats Zuccarello paced Minnesota (41-21-12, 94 points) with a goal and an assist each. Kirill Kaprizov also lit the lamp, Quinn Hughes had two assists, and Filip Gustavsson stopped 25 shots.

The Bruins surged off the opening faceoff and needed just 1:01 to take a 1-0 lead. After Pastrnak forced a turnover and had a point-blank shot saved by Gustavsson, he extended the early shift and slipped a pass to Peeke in the right circle for a top-shelf goal.

Zacha doubled the Boston advantage with six minutes left in the first, finishing a 2-on-1 rush with Arvidsson by slotting home a one-timer from the right side.

Swayman made back-to-back saves on Zuccarello during a flurry in the opening minutes of the middle frame before Arvidsson made it a 3-0 game with 10:27 left. Pastrnak drove down the right wing and slipped a cross-ice pass through traffic to Arvidsson, who shot home a one-timer from the bottom of the opposite circle.

The visitors got on the scoreboard at 14:46, as Brock Faber jumpstarted the offense with a lead pass to Ryan Hartman, whose diagonal feed set up Kaprizov rushing down the wing for a high shot past Swayman’s shoulder.

Boston’s lead expanded back to three at 3:48 of the final frame. After winning a neutral-zone draw, Lindholm drove hard to the net and was wide open to score Lukas Reichel’s quick pass across the crease to make it 4-1.

In the waning seconds of Minnesota’s full two-minute 5-on-3 power play, Quinn Hughes dropped a pass back to Zuccarello, who stepped into the left circle and scored a wrister at 7:57.

At 13:44, Hartman batted in his own rebound in the slot to bring the Wild back into a one-goal game.

Swayman made a key stop on Brock Faber less than a minute after Hartman’s goal, then Zacha deflected in Casey Mittelstadt’s turnaround shot from above the circle to provide a cushion for the Bruins with 3:10 remaining.

Lindholm added an empty-netter in the final minute.

–Field Level Media

Igor Chernyshov scored his second goal of the game with 1:25 left in the third period to lift the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 win against the Blue Jackets in Columbus.

Macklin Celebrini entered the zone on the rush and passed to the middle for Will Smith, who fed Chernyshov for a one-timer from the left face-off dot.

Celebrini had a goal and an assist for the Sharks (33-31-7, 73 points), who snapped a six-game losing streak (0-5-1) and remain in contention for a Western Conference wild card spot. Will Smith had two assists, and Alex Nedeljkovic made 22 saves.

Denton Mateychuk and Cole Sillinger scored for the Blue Jackets (38-24-11, 87 points), who have lost three of four but remain strong contenders for an Eastern Conference wild-card spot. Elvis Merzlikins made 33 saves.

Celebrini, who had gone six games without a goal, tied the score 2-2 with a power-play goal 57 seconds into the third period. Alexander Wennberg won the faceoff back to Dmitry Orlov at the point, and he passed across to Celebrini for the one-timer.

The Blue Jackets took a 1-0 lead just 31 seconds into the game. Mateychuk took a pass at the left point from Adam Fantilli, skated down into the left circle and beat Nedeljkovic with a wrist shot.

Chernyshov tied it 1-1 at 17:17. Chernyshov stole the puck at center ice, entered the offensive zone, passed to Smith and scored on a one-timer from the right circle off the return pass from Smith.

Sillinger gave the Blue Jackets a 2-1 lead at 12:09 of the second period. Ivan Provorov intercepted a San Jose clearing attempt, skated down into the left circle and fed across to Sillinger, who scored on a one-timer from the right circle.

Nedeljkovic made a right pad save to rob Kirill Marchenko in the slot at 13:03 of the third period.

–Field Level Media

Luis Robert Jr. hit a walk-off three-run homer in the 11th inning Saturday for the New York Mets, who overcame a pair of deficits in extras to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-2.

Bryan Reynolds had an RBI infield single in the top of the 11th for the Pirates before the Mets rallied against Hunter Barco (0-1). Jorge Polanco worked a five-pitch walk, after which Robert hit a 1-0 pitch beyond the left-centerfield wall for his first homer with New York and his second career walk-off shot.

Robert, who was acquired from the Chicago White Sox in January, hit his other walk-off homer on Aug. 30, 2020.

The Mets are 2-0 for the first time since 2022.

Richard Lovelady (1-0) allowed an unearned run in the top of the 11th before earning his first big league win since 2024.

Luis Torrens had a game-tying RBI single in the 10th for the Mets, who loaded the bases with none out but didn’t score the winning run.

Nick Gonzales had an RBI single in the top of the 10th for the Pirates, who are 0-2 for the first time since 2022. Gonzales, Reynolds and Jake Mangum had two hits apiece.

Mangum’s ninth-inning double was the only extra-base hit of the game prior to Robert’s homer.

The Mets and Pirates were a combined 0-for-19 with runners in scoring position through the first nine innings.

Mets left-hander David Peterson allowed six hits and two walks while striking out three over 5 1/3 innings. Pirates right-hander Mitch Keller gave up three hits and walked none with three strikeouts over six innings.

The Mets got only two runners as far as second base against Keller. The Pirates built their biggest threat against Peterson in the fifth, when Jared Triolo and Ryan O’Hearn delivered two-out singles before Bryan Reynolds walked. But Marcell Ozuna, swinging on a 2-0 pitch, popped out.

–Field Level Media