BOSTON -- The undefeated Tampa Bay Lightning spotted the Bruins two early goals but roared back and ended a 10-game TD Garden losing streak with a 6-3 victory over Boston on Monday.
Forward Brian Boyle, who hails from nearby Hingham, Mass., and attended Boston College, scored his first two career goals in 22 games against his hometown team to lead the Lightning to their third win in as many games and drop the Bruins to 0-3.
The Boston loss, giving the Bruins their first 0-3 start since 1999-2000, came in the season debut of defenseman/captain Zdeno Chara, who missed the first two games with an upper body injury.
Boyle, a natural center playing on the left wing, scored his team's first and third goals, while center Steven Stamkos snapped a 3-3 tie with a power-play goal in the second period and left winger Jonathan Drouin beat Tuukka Rask with an off-speed shot 5:38 into the third.
Left winger Ondrej Palat scored Tampa's second goal and center Valteri Filppula closed the scoring with 4:02 left. Center Tyler Johnson and defenseman Victor Hedman had two assists apiece.
It was Tampa Bay's first win at TD Garden since March 25, 2010 and the victory was the Lightning's third in their last 13 overall against the Bruins, their fifth in the last 19.
Rask, who has been anything but sharp in losing all three games, heard derisive cheers from the crowd after a routine save following the fifth goal. He made 17 saves and has given up 14 goals on 69 shots in three games -- a dismal .846 save percentage.
Ben Bishop made 27 stops in winning his third straight in the Tampa Bay net.
The Bruins, who have yielded 15 goals in the three games -- all at home -- scored three power-play goals, two by right winger Loui Ericsson and the other by center David Krejci, who assisted on both Ericsson goals. Defenseman Torey Krug drew an assist on all three Boston goals.
Stamkos' second goal of the young season also gave him 500 career points. Center Alex Killorn's assist on the final goal marked his 100th career point.
The Bruins, one of six on the power play in their first two games, needed 18 seconds to score on their first try in the game and just 23 seconds to delivered on their second. Krejci's slapper was the first goal, while Ericsson scored off a perfect feed from Krug.
Up 2-0, the Bruins saw the lead disappear in a span of just 51 seconds, Boyle taking a pass from Hedman to score at 15:42 of the period and, after center Patrice Bergeron took the first of his two penalties, Palat re-directed Johnson's feed to tie it.
Boyle intercepted a cross-ice pass by Bruins right winger David Pastrnak, shook the featherweight off and went in to score on the backhand to put his team ahead 3-2. The goal, at 4:46, was at even strength but the play started with the Lightning a man down.
Krejci's one-timer was tipped in By Ericsson at 12:20 of the second period, tying the game again, but Bergeron's second penalty led to a patented Stamkos one-time from the circle to the goaltender's right -- Stamkos' 16th goal in 38 career games against the Bruins.
NOTES: Bruins D Zdeno Chara (upper body) made his season debut, but Boston was without Brad Marchand (concussion). Boston coach Claude Julien said Marchand, injured Saturday night, was "still going through some daily evaluation," but was hopeful Marchand will be able to travel west with the team for games at Colorado and Arizona. Asked if he had spoken to Marchand, Julien said, "He's concussed, you can't speak to him. He won't remember." After laughing, he said, "No, he's fine. I just talked to him this morning."
RW Ryan Callahan appeared in his 100th game with the Lightning.
The Bruins sent D Matt Irwin to Providence.
Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper attended the Boston-Montreal game on Saturday night.
The Lightning visit the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night before returning home.
The Bruins honored paralyzed former Boston University player Travis Roy before the game, after making a $50,000 donation to his foundation and signing him to a ceremonial one-day contract marking the 20th anniversary of his injury. Roy also dropped the first puck.