For the first time since the 2001-02 season, the Bruins have started the season 3-0-0. You can thank the revival of the Patrice Bergeron line for that third victory.

After a slow start through their first two games, the Bergeron line looked more like themselves Tuesday night, combining for seven points and three of the team’s four goals in an entertaining 4-3 victory in Vegas.

For the first time this season, the Bruins found themselves trailing, however.

A pair of Knights goals in the game’s first 8:20 put the Bruins in an early hole, but from there the Bergeron line took the game over, creating three unanswered goals.

"I actually think we were playing better than they were at the start, but they just capitalized on their two opportunities. We just kept playing the same way, we're a resilient team, we've shown that many times,” said Brad Marchand who scored his third and fourth goals in the win. “There's a lot of experience in here. We kept going; the game was far from over."

After scoring three goals in their first two games, it was nice to see the Bruins offense wake up with four goals against a very good Vegas team. The Bruins will conclude their season-opening four-game road trip in Colorado on Thursday.

In the 10:40 of five-on-five time the Marchand, Bergeron, David Pastrnak trio spent on the ice together, held a 60.87% Corsi For advantage.

The goals scored by the Bergeron line were the typical style of goals we have come to known from the Bergeron line.

On Pastrnak’s first tally of the season, Marchand collected a loose puck forced off a turnover and fed a streaking Pastrnak for the goal.

Later with the game tied at two, Marchand broke into the offensive zone and sent a shot over the glove of Knights’ goalie Marc-Andre Fleury.

As nice as it was to see things click for the Bergeron line, five-on-five scoring outside the Bergeron continues to be an issue.

Brett Ritchie and Torey Krug are the only non-Bergeron line Bruins to have a five-on-five goal through three games to date.

In an attempt to get things moving in the right direction for lines two, three and four, head coach Bruce Cassidy juggled some things around midway through the victory, swapping Karson Kuhlman and Ritchie on the second and third lines.

Although they didn’t find themselves on the scoresheet, the newly assembled line of Danton Heinen, Charlie Coyle and Kuhlman looked very solid in the 6:24 of five-on-five time spent together. They held a 11-4 advantage in Corsi For and an 8-1 shot advantage.

It was a perfect combination of grit, speed and skill and a line that Cassidy should be inclined to see more of. However, the issue then becomes who slots to the right of Jake DeBrusk and David Krejci?

Another Bruins line that has been non-existent through three games.

Ritchie didn’t do much on Tuesday to earn himself some more time on the line, but the Bruins don’t really have many options just yet.

With the Bergeron line trending upwards, hopefully there’s a trickledown effect for the Bruins three other lines.

The Bruins survived two scares in the victory.

After blocking a shot with his foot in the first period, causing him to miss nearly the entire period, Matt Grzelcyk returned in the second and finished the game. X-rays were negative.

After the final buzzer sounded, goalie Tuukka Rask needed the help of his teammates as he left the ice. Rask met with the media postgame and revealed he had some cramping due to the heat and said he will be fine.

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