Overtime has been very kind to Brad Marchand and the Boston Bruins so far this season.

Brad Marchand tallied the game-winning goal Tuesday night in overtime as the Bruins defeated the Florida Panthers 2-1, the goal was Marchand’s fourth in three games and second overtime winner in that span.

This time last week, Marchand was ice cold, searching for ways to get back into a groove and starting producing offensively for a team fighting with the injury bug. One week and three games later, things are heading in the right direction for both Marchand and the Bruins.

Winners of three in a row and six of their last eight, the Bruins are finally playing the type of hockey many expected the Bruins to play. The teams’ recent hot streak has brought out the best in Brad Marchand.

Since being drafted by the Bruins in the third round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, Marchand has gone through his fair share of streaks—both good and bad. Marchand knows that streaks are just part of the game.

“That’s hockey. It happens to all the top guys every year, and it happens to every player every year,” Marchand said about the streaks. “You just want to try to ride the waves, not get too low when you’re not scoring, and not get too high when you are scoring. Both situations are going to end at some point, and you just want to stay even-keeled.”

Marchand now leads the Bruins in goals with five and sits one point behind Carl Soderberg for the team lead in points with nine.

Prior to his overtime tally, Marchand had a couple of prime chances to put the B’s ahead in regulation, but Panthers’ goalie and Bruins’ fan favorite Roberto Luongo stood tall. No save was better than Luongo’s second period pad stop on Marchand who had what seemed like the entire net wide open.

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“On the first one, I had so much time I didn’t really know what to do. I was going to cut back, but then I saw how much net I had, and I just tried to shoot it,” Marchand added. “Then the other one, Seids [Dennis Seidenberg] gave it to me, I just couldn’t get a handle on it. I was pretty frustrated that I didn’t score early on, but I mean it was nice that we got two points.”

After Saturday’s win over the Ottawa Sentors, both head coach Claude Julien and Marchand agreed that Marchand can be better. On Tuesday he was, he was much better.

Marchand has played consistently with Patrice Bergeron and Reilly Smith since the Bruins acquired Smith in the summer of 2013. The trio has formed into one of the better, more consistent lines in hockey. Despite producing both goals against the Panthers, Julien wants more from the Bergeron line.

“I still think they can play even better. We’re talking about one guy here right now that’s really scoring goals, and that’s not to discredit the other two because Bergy [Patrice Bergeron] is arguably our best player on most nights,” Julien said. “He still works hard and stuff like that. But I think, again, not the chemistry, but I think the puck movement between them still isn’t quite where we’ve seen it before.”

As the Bergeron line looks to get their game back to where they want it to be, they will take any positives out of each game that they can. Obviously the two goals was a huge positive, but the way the trio played the puck along the boards was a sign that things are moving in the right direction.

On the Bruins’ first goal, Smith won the puck battle along the boards and seconds later Bergeron was firing home his second goal of the season.

“Yeah it was great. Bergy did a great job of getting in there, and forcing it up the wall, and Smitty [Reilly Smith] did a great job of pinching it off, and it popped out to me, and I just tried to get it to Bergy,” stated Marchand. “Those are the things we have to do to win. We have to do the dirty things. Play simple, play hard, play within the system, and it works. It shows, and that’s why we won tonight.”

Bergeron has been in this league for a long time and knows what it takes to be successful.

“I think we have the experience, and we know what makes us successful. We just have to go back to doing that,” Bergeron said. Sometimes it takes longer than you would want, but you’ve got to stay with it and I thought we did that.”

The more that Marchand, Bergeron and Smith can contribute for the Bruins the better off the team will be.

See what Marchand, Bergeron, Luongo, Shawn Thornton and Tuukka Rask had to say following Tuesday’s contest.