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Get your game notes: Bruins at Penguins

Bergeron and Crosby

Pittsburgh and Boston meet tonight for the first time since the playoffs. The action can be seen live on NBCSN at 8 p.m. ET.

Following are some game notes, as compiled by the NHL on NBC research team:

---- With a victory tonight, the Bruins (4-0-0 on the road) can match their best road start in club history, set by the 2010-11 squad that won its first five road games and later the Stanley Cup. The only other times a Bruins team began a season 4-0-0 on the road were in the 1929-30 and 1937-38 seasons.

---- The Penguins have led the NHL in goals per game the last two seasons (3.33 in 2011-12 and 3.38 in 2012-13), and have finished among the top-five in goals in four of the past five seasons. However, through 12 games this season, they rank only 10th (3.08).

---- Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask’s career regular-season statistics vs. Pittsburgh (1-4-0, 2.63 GAA, .903 save%) are far inferior to his marks vs. the other 28 NHL teams (71-44-16, 2.09 GAA, .928 save%). However, the two goals that he allowed in the four-game sweep of the Penguins in the 2013 Eastern Conference Final were the second-fewest given up in a best-of-seven playoff series. (Jean-Sebastien Giguere allowed one goal in the 2003 Western Conference Final vs. Minnesota.)

---- Since the beginning of the 2012-13 season, Penguins top-line forwards Sidney Crosby and Chris Kunitz have earned points on the same goal 41 times, the third most by any duo in the NHL.
42 – Henrik & Daniel Sedin (VAN)
42 – Steven Stamkos & Martin St. Louis (TBL)
41 – Crosby & Kunitz (PIT)

During that span, the Sedin twins have played together in 61 games, Stamkos and St. Louis 60, while Crosby and Kunitz in only 48. Source: Elias Sports Bureau

---- David Krejci has a seven-game point streak (two goals, eight assists=10 points), the second-longest active streak in the NHL (Henrik Sedin, VAN, nine games).

---- The Penguins snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-1 win in Carolina on Monday. It was the Pens’ first regular-season winless streak of more than two games since they lost six straight, Dec. 29, 2011-Jan. 11, 2012. It was also during that swoon in 2011-12 that the club last lost three in a row at home (the losing streak reached four games). A loss tonight in Pittsburgh would make it three in a row.

---- The Bruins have led the NHL in faceoff percentage the last two seasons (54.5% in 2011-12 and 56.4% in 2012-13), and have been among the top-five in the last four. However, through 10 games this season, they rank only 11th (52.0%). Despite the team’s slight downturn as a whole, Patrice Bergeron remains one of the league’s best (59.5%, 5th in NHL).

---- Ex-Penguins and current Bruins forward Jarome Iginla has seven points over his last four games. That is the most points that Iginla has put up in any four-game span since a nine-point surge from Mar. 6-13, 2012, his last full season in Calgary. Against New Jersey on Saturday, he registered three points (one goal, two assists) in a period (the first) for the first time since Dec. 13, 2007.

---- Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik assisted on all three Pittsburgh goals vs. Carolina, for his second-career three-point game. It was only the second time in franchise history that a Pens blueliner assisted on every goal in a game they won and scored at least