What we learned: Patrice Bergeron reaches 1,000 points

The Boston Bruins hardly had their ‘A’ game in their opening moments against the Tampa Bay Lightning. They relinquished the game’s first nine shots and trailed 1-0 8:57 in on Nick Paul’s first tally of the night.

In their opening tilt of a seven-game gauntlet, the Bruins appeared ripe for a letdown against a Bolts squad coming off their third straight Stanley Cup final appearance.

They didn’t.

In the process, the Bruins witnessed another accolade for an all-time great during Monday’s 5-3 triumph.

Patrice Bergeron notched his 1,000th career point after notching a secondary assist at 15:08 of the second period on Brad Marchand’s sixth goal of the season. The Bruins cleared their bench to…