In this case, the calm came after the storm.

Returning to the lineup after sitting the last three games due to a lower body injury, Tuukka Rask provided some stress relief for the Boston Bruins. Rask stopped all 24 shots he faced and made a couple of key saves in the final minutes where the Bruins were killing a 6-on-4 power play to secure the 1-0 victory over the Red Wings on Saturday night. The Bruins win snaps a three-game losing streak and simultaneously ended the Red Wings six-game winning streak.

“Obviously when he’s out there it’s a calming demeanor,” Torey Krug said about Rask after Friday’s practice at Warrior Ice Arena.

Looking poised and assertive, Rask’s calmness seemed to have an effect on the rest of the Bruins. Though they only scored once, the B’s fired 36 shots on goal on Jimmy Howard and had a significant advantage spending time in the offensive zone while also keeping their turnovers to a minimum.

Their lone goal came from a bad angle shot from Tim Schaller late in the second period, an encouraging sign for the Black and Gold given their struggles in the middle-20.

Here are a few things that we learned on a night where Rask — now 4-0-0 this season with a 1.56 goals against average and .958 save percentage — tied Tim Thomas for third on the Bruins’ all-time shutout list with 31.

Another puzzling offside challenge

There was a housekeeping item that the officials needed to conduct before Schaller could officially celebrate his first goal as a member of the Bruins. That housekeeping item may need its own cleanup.

Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill used his only challenge to dispute a potential offside from Matt Beleskey that occurred prior to Schaller’s goal. After a two-minute review, replay confirmed that Beleskey had one skate in the air prior to reaching the blue-line, thus giving Schaller a clear entry into the Red Wings zone.

What’s puzzling wasn’t the challenge itself, but rather that the Red Wings had possession of the puck in an attempt to clear the zone before Schaller did the damage. Though the offside review is a controversial item around the league — or at least it’s played that way with those of us in the media — the least the NHL could do is to adopt a resolution regarding possession of the puck for the team making the challenge.

Maybe it seemed like a good idea at the time, but the offsides review is proving to be an Achilles Heel around the league.

A mini-streak of sorts

One of the rare positives for the Bruins that came in their 5-2 loss to the Rangers happened in the opening 10 seconds when David Pastrnak put the team on the board. That marked the first time all year that the Bruins scored the first goal of the game. Though it took nearly two periods for the Bruins to get on the board, they managed to extend their streak to two straight games.

Unlike the Rangers game, playing with the lead proved to pay dividends for a Bruins squad that is still in transition.

Bruins penalty kill comes through despite ill-advised penalties

From the second period struggles to the defensive lapses without Rask, head coach Claude Julien has seen a few alarming trends from his squad. Another struggle that falls in that category is the ill-advised penalties that have occured in the early going, including Wednesday’s game in New York where most of the calls happened while the Bruins were either possessing the puck in the offensive zone or trying to create transition.

The Bruins took a couple of untimely penalties again in Detroit on Saturday including Brandon Carlo’s boarding call at 18:47 of the third which gave the Red Wings a 6-on-4 advantage through the end of regulation. Unlike Wednesday against the Rangers where they allowed two goals on shorthanded opportunities, the Bruins penalty kill shutdown the Red Wings man advantage and held them to three shots on goal in four chances.

While it’s an encouraging sign for the penalty kill, the Bruins need to stay out of the box, or at the very least avoid getting called for penalties at inopportune times.