BOSTON — It’s hard to know what to expect from the Bruins from night to night and sometimes even period to period.
After a rough first period, Boston found a spark in the second and used it as a springboard toward a 5-2 win on Tuesday at TD Garden.
The Bruins host the Sabres on Thursday.
Much of the first period played like a continuation of Monday’s browbeating in Ottawa. Bo Horvat made it 1-0, 62 seconds into the game with the Bruins’ defense out of position and Kyle Palmieri extended the edge to 2-0 before the game was even 5 minutes old.
The Islanders outshot the Bruins, 10-4.
Marco Sturm continued to make lineup moves with motivation in mind. Having already benched Mason Lohrei for the game, he dropped Morgan Geekie to the third line and gave Marat Khusnutdinov a chance to ride sidecar with Elias Lindholm and David Pastrnak in the second.
The Bruins got on the board with Elias Lindholm’s fourth power play goal of the season, 3:57 into the second. that started a stretch of three goals in four minutes.
Hampus Lindholm earned an assist in his first game back. He faked a shot as he walked in from left point and then fed Pastrnak at the opposite faceoff dot. Pastrnak flicked a wrist shot by Ilya Sorokin to make it 2-2 with 13:11 left in the second.
Mikey Eyssimont put the Bruins ahead, 59 seconds later. Parked off of the right post, he tapped in the rebound of Charlie McAvoy’s shot to make it 3-2.
Korpisalo made the lead stand up for the rest of the period. Nine of his 10 second-period saves came in the last four minutes of the frame, including a momentum stop on Horvat on a breakaway.
Geekie reunited with his regular mates in the third and scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season with 14:12 left, one-timing a McAvoy pass by Sorokin to make it 4-2.
Down a pair, Patrick Roy hooked his goalie early and Fraser Minten scored an empty-netter with 3:23 left.
Korpisalo finished with 33 saves.
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