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Nov 21, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Boston Bruins center Morgan Geekie (39) celebrates with goaltender Jeremy Swayman (1) after scoring a game winning goal in the overtime against the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\nThe Boston Bruins round out the California portion of a four-game, pre-holiday road trip Sunday night in San Jose, meeting the Sharks for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The Bruins snapped a two-game skid and won for just the second time in five games with their 2-1 overtime victory at the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Morgan Geekie posted his second consecutive multi-goal game. The game-winning tally at 2:27 of the extra session was his 16th goal of the season, one behind Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon for the NHL lead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Last season, Geekie had just two of his career-high 33 goals before the calendar turned to December.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n “I mean, I don’t know if last year at this time I would have taken that shot in overtime, just the situation and where I was,” Geekie said. “But it’s easy to build confidence when you have confidence. I think over the last year it’s slowly been building.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Boston’s forward lineup featured a new look, with Czech natives Matej Blumel, Pavel Zacha and David Pastrnak making up the top line. Geekie played on the second line with Alex Steeves and Marat Khusnutdinov.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Coach Marco Sturm shuffled the lineup in hopes of providing more offensive depth and liked what he saw, despite the low-scoring output in Los Angeles, but Jeremy Swayman (31 saves) stood tall to post his sixth win in seven starts.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n “I think it was just a better overall fit. We spread it out a little bit,” Sturm said. “We just don’t want to put everything on one line and put the pressure on them all the time.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Elias Lindholm could be closer to a return from a lower-body injury that has sidelined him since Oct. 30. He skated in practice on Saturday in full.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n <\/p>\n “We’ll see (when he plays), still going day by day,” Sturm said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The Sharks had won back-to-back games in overtime and a shootout before a 3-2 Saturday loss to the Ottawa Senators, but are searching for their first regulation triumph since the end of a seven-game point streak Nov. 11.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n John Klingberg and Barclay Goodrow scored San Jose’s goals, but in a game that was tied 2-2 more than halfway through the third period, difficulty in the faceoff circle — winning just 24 of 51 draws — proved to be a key factor.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n “We couldn’t win a puck at all, defensively or offensively,” Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “When you don’t win pucks, you basically just skate and chase it. That’s what we did.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Warsofsky’s team managed just 19 shots on net and allowed a power-play goal for the first time in five games. Their own power play scored for the fourth time in six contests.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n “It definitely wasn’t our best game,” Goodrow said. “We were spending way too much time in our own end. I think when we play the way we’re capable of and follow the game plan, it looks good on the ice.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n From the general manager (Mike Grier) and coach on down, the Sharks are chock full of Massachusetts connections. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Macklin Celebrini, who won the Hobey Baker Award at Grier’s alma mater, Boston University, in 2024, has had a torrid sophomore season. He is riding a four-game point streak and has 13 goals and 32 points in just 22 games after registering an assist Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Celebrini’s linemate and former Boston College star Will Smith is the team’s No. 2 scorer (seven goals, 21 points in 22 games). A more veteran addition has been Northeastern product Adam Gaudette, who scored his fifth goal of the season in Thursday’s 4-3 shootout win over Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n “He’s been a nice kind of jack of all trades, of playing different situations,” Warsofsky said of Gaudette.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n