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Boston Bruins är en amerikansk ishockeyorganisation vars lag är baserat i Boston, Massachusetts och har varit medlemsorganisation i National Hockey League (NHL) sedan Bruins bildades den 1 november och därmed var den första amerikanska som anslöt sig till NHL. [ 1] Bruins tillhör den exklusiva skaran "Original Six" ("de sex. Internationally, Pastrňák has played for the Czech national team at both the junior and senior level, including at four World Championships.
He is widely regarded as one of the best players in the National Hockey League. For most of his childhood, he lived with his mother and older brother in a two-bedroom apartment. When he was 13 years old, Pastrňák got an agent and his hockey equipment was paid for; this reduced the financial stress on his family. This was considered a test to ensure that Pastrňák could move to Sweden the next year. For the —14 season, Pastrňák was promoted to Södertälje SK 's senior team in Allsvenskan , Sweden's second-highest professional league.
He led his team in points, scoring 8 goals and 16 assists in 36 games, though he missed part of the season due to a concussion. He scored the first two goals of his NHL career against Ray Emery on 10 January , as the initial pair of goals resulting in a 3—1 Bruins' road win over the Philadelphia Flyers. During a Bruins' regular season home game in the —16 season , against the Penguins on 24 February , Pastrňák became the youngest Bruins' player ever to score a penalty shot goal, which he scored only four minutes into the game, as the first goal en route to a 5—1 Bruins' defeat of the Penguins.
Entering the off-season, Pastrňák was a restricted free agent. Towards the end of the —18 season , on 13 March , Pastrňák scored his first NHL hat-trick during a come-from-behind 6—4 Bruins' road win over the Carolina Hurricanes. Louis Blues , one win short from winning the Stanley Cup. On 14 October , Pastrňák scored all four Bruins goals in a victory over the Anaheim Ducks , making him the 25th player in Bruins history to score four goals in one game.
During the pandemic shortened —21 season , Pastrňák scored 20 goals to give him a career regular-season total of exactly by the second to last game of the season on 8 May against the New York Rangers. In the first game in the second round of the playoffs , he scored a hat trick against the New York Islanders to help give the Bruins a 1—0 series lead on 29 May. The Bruins won the Presidents' Trophy as the best team of the regular season, breaking the league record for both wins and standing points.
Pastrňák was widely cited as the highlight player of the team, and was for the first time named a finalist for both the Ted Lindsay Award , voted by the National Hockey League Players Association for the league's most outstanding player, and the Hart Memorial Trophy , voted by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association for the league's most valuable player. Pastrňák looked to continue his offensive production from the previous year in the —24 season , and he did just that.
In the Bruins opening game against the Chicago Blackhawks , Pastrňák scored two goals to lead the Bruins to a victory. Pastrňák continued throughout the year with consistent offensive production, reaching multiple milestones in the process. On 20 January , Pastrňák scored his 30th goal of the season against the rival Montreal Canadiens , which was his seventh career goal season, tying him with Johnny Bucyk for most in Bruins history.
Pastrňák would be held scoreless in the championship game, which saw Team McDavid win Pastrňák finished the —24 season with 47 goals, 63 assists and points in all 82 contests played.
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Pastrňák, like most star players, was expected to elevate his game come playoffs, but even with two goals and two assists throughout the first six games of the Bruins first round matchup with the Toronto Maple Leafs , many expected Pastrňák to contribute more. After a Game 6 loss that saw the Leafs force a decisive Game 7, Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery called out Pastrňák, saying that he "needs to step up.
Pastrňák has represented the Czech Republic's national teams at every level and has led his team in scoring numerous times. He played at the IIHF World Championship with Czechia and won a gold medal, scored the winning goal in the final and was also named player of the game. Pastrňák and his girlfriend, Rebecca Rohlsson, had a son Viggo Rohl Pastrňák who was born on June 17th and died six days later.
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