Minten continued his productive month, giving the Bruins a 3-0 lead to open the middle frame; he has eight goals in January and a total of 14 on the season. Mittelstadt picked up his second assist of the night, dishing it up to Minten on the left side, where he wristed it in at 2:27.
“[My confidence] is definitely building. Just finding space where you can hold onto pucks, you can try to make some plays,” Minten said. “It’s a tight area for 10 guys, but once you figure out where there are some soft spots in coverage, I think you can kind of build that game. I’m just trying to do that.”
Travis Konecny got the Flyers on the board, 3-1, with a snapshot at 3:16, but the B’s soon pushed back.
After setting up both of his linemates, Mittelstadt got a goal of his own – and his third point of the game – to make it 4-1 at 16:12. Minten launched a cross-crease pass to Andrew Peeke, whose shot was saved, and Mittelstadt came and backhanded in the rebound. The assist marked Minten’s third point of the night, too.
“I’m very, very happy with the way he’s been playing all year long. I put him in different situations from fourth line to pretty much first line, and you could see he can do it all,” Sturm said of Minten. “He definitely has something a lot of players don’t have.”
A few minutes later, Peeke blasted one from the point, which Tanner Jeannot tipped in for the 5-1 boost at 18:40. Philadelphia’s Nikita Grebenkin scored at 19:05 for the 5-2 standing ahead of the third period. Marat Khusnutdinov’s empty-net tally at 16:30 and Matvei Michkov’s power-play goal at 18:19 brought the contest to its final 6-3 scoreline.
“I think we’re just committed to playing the right way,” Peeke said. “We knew this was the last home game before the break and put a big emphasis on just finding a way to get two points. We’ve had a great homestand here, all the month of January, and just ending on a good note for the fans was really important for us.”
The Bruins now depart for Florida, where they’ll participate in the 2026 Navy Federal Credit Union Stadium Series against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium.
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