What we learned: Bruins ‘sway’ to well-rounded win over Capitals

Even in one of their better starts in recent memory, the Boston Bruins couldn’t make things easy on themselves. It wasn’t through their own undoing, though.

A pair of unlikely scorers in Jeremy Lauzon (33 seconds in) and Anton Blidh set the tone with their first-period tallies. Brad Marchand continued his penalty kill dominance with a slick toe-drag before backhanding his 30th career shorthanded tally in the middle stanza.

The Bruins expected a pushback from the Washington Capitals. But Bruce Cassidy’s squad didn’t expect Kelly Sutherland and the officiating crew to provide a helping hand to Washington.

In an 85-second span, the officials assessed Blidh a double-minor for tripping and slashing…