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Bergeron fights off Jets in bounce-back victory for Bruins (Video)

Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron isn’t proficient in fighting. That’s because he doesn’t do it a lot, at least in the regular season.

On Thursday Bergeron and Winnipeg Jets forward Blake Wheeler dropped the gloves and tussled in their game at MTS Centre. The fight didn’t take long but it was memorable. This is because it was only Bergeron’s second regular season fight in his career.

The other fight came on Dec. 31, 2013 between Bergeron and 6-foot-8 defenseman Tyler Myers, who at the time played for the Buffalo Sabres. Bergeron’s also had two playoff fights – one in 2013 against Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin, and another in 2009 against then-Montreal Canadiens defenseman Josh Gorges.

This was just Wheeler’s seventh fight in his NHL career.

The fight wasn’t Bergeron’s only highlight of the evening. He scored two goals in a 6-2 drubbing of the Jets. The win for the Bruins helped erase some of the sting of a 9-2 loss on Tuesday against the Los Angeles Kings.

“It was a good response,” coach Claude Julien told reporters after the game. “Maybe we were a little shaky there at the beginning, a fair portion of the first period. We gave them a couple goals. We really wanted to try and minimize our goals against on this road trip. So it was nice we were able to shut them down after that. We kind of found our game again, started playing smart, and doing the right things.”

The Bruins improved to 29-19-6. Their 64 points are six ahead of the Montreal Canadiens for the final Atlantic Division playoff spot.

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