Less than 24 hours after his team was run off the ice in Ottawa , a clean slate was the last thing Marco Sturm wanted to harp on Tuesday.

“I think we all should feel embarrassed by what happened yesterday,” Sturm said before facing the Islanders. “I’m not going to sit here and just move on through the next one. I’m a competitor; my guys in my room are very competitive. We all take a lot of pride in games like that. We just want to be better and show a response today.”

It wasn’t pretty. But Boston’s first-year coach eventually received what he was looking for at TD Garden.

Trailing the Islanders by two goals after the opening 20 minutes of play Tuesday, the Bruins surged back via a three-goal salvo in under four minutes in the second period — propelling Boston to a 5-2 win.

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