A night after being benched for the final eight minutes of the game, David Pastrnak responded with two goals for the Bruins , but that wasn’t enough to salvage anything from their road trip.
Utah’s Dylan Guenther scored with 9:23 left in the third to break a tie. Boston couldn’t answer and fell, 3-2, on Sunday in Salt Lake City. They finished the road trip 0-3.
The Bruins (3-4-0) will next face Florida and former captain Brad Marchand on Tuesday.
Marco Sturm s hook up his lineup for the game. He benched second line center Casey Mittelstadt and chose not to use Hampus Lindholm on the second night of a back-to-back right after he returned from injury.
He reunited Elias Lindholm and Morgan Geekie with Pastrnak. Pavel Zacha moved to center on the second line between Marat Khusnutdinov