SUNRISE, Fla. — Brad Marchand scored twice and Zdeno Chara picked up his first goal of the season to lead the Boston Bruins to a 3-1 win over the Florida Panthers on Friday night.

Marchand, who extended his point streak to five games, also was given a major penalty and a game misconduct for boarding Dmitry Kulikov with 2:06 left in the game. Kulikov left the ice bleeding.

Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask covers the puck as Florida Panthers center Connor Brickley, 86, attempts to get the rebound during the first period of the Bruins’ 3-1 win Friday in Sunrise, Florida. The Associated Press

Boston goalie Tuukka Rask made 31 saves and Florida’s Roberto Luongo had 22.

Chara also added an assist.

Florida’s Nick Bjugstad scored his fourth goal on a 5-on-3 power play at 11:32 in the third.

The first period featured a number of strong scoring chances, especially for the Panthers. But it was scoreless until the Bruins were able use the league’s top power play to grab the lead after Florida’s Reilly Smith was sent off for hooking. Marchand tipped in a long shot by Chara past Luongo at 9:22 for his third goal.

Rask kept the game scoreless early with big saves on a breakaway by Quinton Howden then a rebound chance by Alex Petrovic. He added a sliding glove save on a point-blank shot by Jonathan Huberdeau at 11:55 with Florida on the power play.

Marchand scored his second goal after controlling a shot by Krug, skating past Luongo and flipping in his fourth goal at 7:07 of the second.

Chara put in a rebound off Krejci’s shot for Boston’s second power-play goal at 9:13 after Pirri was called for tripping.

Bjugstad recovered Bolland’s shot on the two-man advantage and beat Rask to cut the deficit to 3-1 at 11:32.

Florida had another 1:17 of 5-on-3 less than a minute later after Joe Morrow and Adam McQuaid drew minors but they failed to capitalize.

Chara was called for a delay of game penalty with 4:59 left. Florida pulled Luongo to set up a 6-on-4 advantage but couldn’t score.

RANGERS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 1: Mats Zuccarello’s hat trick sent host New York over Toronto.

Henrik Lundqvist had to make just 22 saves as the Rangers improved to 7-2-2. New York has won four of its last five, earning 10 points in its last six games.

During the break, Coach Alain Vigneault reconfigured his top two lines, reuniting Zuccarello with Derick Brassard and Rick Nash and putting Chris Kreider back with Derek Stepan.

Toronto has lost five in a row.

SABRES 3, FLYERS 1: Ryan O’Reilly had a goal and two assists, rookie goaltender Linus Ullmark got his first NHL win and Buffalo won at home against Philadelphia.

Jack Eichel and Nicolas Deslauriers also scored for Buffalo. Ullmark made 27 saves.

Mark Streit spoiled Ullmark’s shutout bid with 3:26 left, but the Flyers have lost three straight. Two of those came this week against the Sabres

HURRICANES 3, AVALANCHE 2: Victor Rask, Justin Faulk and Jeff Skinner scored and Carolina won at home against Colorado.

Colorado’s Carl Soderberg scored with 31.8 seconds left, but Carolina got its first home win of the season.

SENATORS 3, RED WINGS 1: Kyle Turris and Matt Puempel scored in the first two periods and Bobby Ryan added an empty-net goal in the final minute, helping Ottawa win on the road.

Andrew Hammond made 29 saves for the Senators.

Detroit’s Henrik Zetterberg scored on the second of two power plays with a two-man advantage late in the second period. Jimmy Howard stopped 32 shots for the Red Wings.

CAPITALS 2, BLUE JACKETS 1: Justin Williams and T.J. Oshie each scored a goal to lift host Washington over Columbus.

Braden Holtby made 29 saves to help the Capitals avoid back-to-back losses for the first time this year after falling 3-1 to Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

The Jackets fell to 2-2-0 under new coach John Tortorella.

WILD 5, BLACKHAWKS 4: Jason Zucker scored 18 seconds into the game and assisted on Nino Niederreiter’s winner to lead Minnesota to a win at home over Chicago.

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