There was nothing lacking in Vancouver goaltender Eddie Lack’s performance when the Bruins and Canucks limped into TD Garden Tuesday night resembling a cast of M.A.S.H. personalities on the frozen sheet. Boston missing David Krejci, Kevan Miller and Gregory Campbell as headliners; Vancouver with seven on injured reserve, led by Ryan Miller, Kevin Bieksa and Nick Bonino.

“This time of year, there’s a lot of teams that are depleted and we’re all battling for a spot in the playoffs,” Claude Julien said at his pregame press conference after morning skate and before his 600th career game behind the Boston pine with a 339-186-74 mark.

“You want to think that our guys in there are hungry enough, experienced enough, they believe in each other enough that there’s a sense of urgency that they want to [be in the playoffs].”

The Bruins were also looking to atone for the Canucks 5-2 win February 13 in the first game of their five games away from TD Garden.

With long road trips each, both teams ended losing streaks with convincing wins Sunday – Vancouver a 4-0 blanking against the Islanders, Boston a 6-2 thumping over Chicago in the Windy City.

Those two points for each team kept respective playoff momentum in gear toward a likely eighth seed each come mid April. Vancouver clinging to second place in the Western Conference’s Pacific Division with the surging Stanley Cup-champion Kings breathing down their necks head home after a five-game trip that ends Thursday in Buffalo. Boston opening a three-point lead over the Panthers, who were also ending a long trip away from South Florida – in Chicago on Tuesday night

The Canucks turned to backup Lack between the pipes after Miller was injured Sunday; Tuukka Rask was back for a backbreaking 51st game of 60 played so far. Lack’s 6-7-2 mark and 22 NHL career wins seemed ripe pickings in his first-ever start against the Bruins.

It would be a memorable one for the 27-year-old Swede now expected to carry the goaltending load in Miller’s absence for a speculated month.

Just a minute into the game, Loui Eriksson shoveled a right-wing pass to Carl Soderberg, who drilled a cross-crease shot that Lack deflected onto the stick of Daniel Paille. Riding Julien’s pine the past two games for a consistent lack of contribution all season, Paille swung the rebound past Lack for his first point in his last 16 games — nine overall — and first goal in 36 games, dating way back to November 21.

That 1-0 lead lasted but two minutes when defenseman Ryan Stanton fired a 20-footer over Rask’s left shoulder off a Jannik Hansen pass for the equalizer at 3:28.

Not a ton of offense for either roster the rest of the period; shots on net an indication of that at 10-8 in favor of the Canucks; only 5-4 in favor of Boston with five minutes left.

Second verse same as the first, despite Boston’s three power-play opportunities and 20 shots on Lack. Their best scoring opportunity was Stanton hand sweeping the puck out of his crease at the seven-minute mark. Replay showed a penalty-shot infraction.

Read: Good example for a rules change to one coaching challenge per game.

In the third, Vancouver’s Daniel Sedin put a laser on Rask from the top of the left faceoff that Rask converted into a juicy rebound to the right circle. Zach Kassian (trade-rumored to be heading to Boston a few weeks back) potted his eighth of the season at 6:29 with a blast over – once again — Rask’s left shoulder.

A fourth Boston man-advantage at the halfway mark failed to produce the tying goal.

Vancouver sustained a frantic last-minute attack as the Bruins threw all they had at Lack with Rask out of the net. The result: 41 saves for Lack, good for No. 1 star, and two points for Vancouver.

“He’s been good at different points of the year,” Vancouver coach Willie Dejardins said postgame about his pinch-hitter.

He was very on Tuesday night.

Fortunately, the Panthers can’t figure out how to win, losing another to Chicago (in a shootout) to keep Boston’s sense of urgency, well, less urgent.

“I thought we came out and worked hard, dominated the game and had lots of shots, lots of scoring chances,” Claude Julien said postgame. “The inability to finish is the only reason we’re sitting here with a loss. The only thing we need to talk about here is pretty simple. It’s not the offense; it’s the lack of finish.”

It was more about a Lack of another type.