Left wing Ville Nieminen tallied the winner at 8:42, set up by Jagr. Nieminen drove to the net and fired a forehand shot on Toivonen. The goalie made the stop but Nieminen got the rebound and backhanded it into the net between Toivonen's skates.
Bergeron pulled the Bruins back within 1 during a power play at 9:32. With defenseman Michal Rozsival in the box at 8:49, Bergeron's one-timer from deep in the left circle beat Lundqvist.
Once again, it was close, but not close enough.
"It's frustrating," said defenseman Hal Gill. "We stuck to our game plan and I think we had a solid effort. It's a fine line, I guess, between winning and losing and we're on the wrong side. We're not getting the breaks and, more importantly, we're not making the breaks happen for us. It's a frustrating thing. I don't know how you buck it, but we're going to keep trying. Hopefully, in the end, we can say this made us stronger."
Canucks 3, Mighty Ducks 2
Sami Salo scored his second goal of the game with 7:48 left to help the Vancouver Canucks hand the Anaheim Mighty Ducks' their record-tying eighth straight loss, 3-2.
Salo blasted a 50-foot slap shot from the point that deflected past goalie Ilja Bryzgalov, and the Canucks held on to finish a three-game trip with a 2-1 record.
Rob Niedermayer's power-play goal 47 seconds into the third period tied the game for Anaheim, which also lost eight games in a row in October 1996.
Vancouver's Trevor Linden scored on a penalty shot with a second left in the second period. Linden, hooked by defenseman Keith Carney on a breakaway, beat Bryzgalov with a backhand shot.
Salo opened the scoring on a power play with 4:55 left in the first period, and Andy McDonald tied it on a power play midway through the second.
Coyotes 5, Blue Jackets 1
In Glendale, Arizona, Ladislav Nagy had a goal and two assists, and David LeNeveu made 23 saves to help Phoenix extend Columbus' losing streak to five.
Mike Johnson scored his second goal in three games and Zbynek Michalek, Boyd Devereaux and Geoff Sanderson also scored.
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