Mark Kastelic might have said it best on Saturday afternoon as Pavel Zacha made his way back into Boston’s dressing room.
“It’s funny,” Kastelic said. “Pav came in and I said, ‘Imagine getting a hat trick and being the Third Star.’”
Sure enough, it was a testament to the lopsided box score that the Bruins etched on Saturday at TD Garden that Zacha — fresh off of scoring the first hat trick of his NHL career — was only the Third Star on Causeway Street.
The Second Star? David Pastrnak — who dished out a whopping six assists to tie a career-high scoring output in a single game.