J.T. Miller’s return to the New York Rangers got off to a fast start with two goals Saturday but resulted in a 6-3 loss to the Boston Bruins, a day after he was acquired in a trade from Vancouver.

David Pastrnak scored three goals and added an assist to lead the Bruins.

Charlie McAvoy, Charlie Coyle and Pavel Zacha also scored for Boston, which snapped a two-game skid. Jeremy Swayman finished with 22 saves.

The Rangers got the 31-year old Miller and a pair of defensemen from the Canucks for center Filip Chytil, defenseman Victor Mancini and a 2025 conditional draft pick earlier in the week.

“It’s kind of like a numb feeling,” Miller said, sitting at his locker after packing his things in his old Canucks equipment bag. “It’s definitely been a long 24 hours.”

Panthers 5, Blackhawks 1 >> Landon Slaggert scored 7 seconds into the game — the fastest goal to start a game ever in the storied history of the Blackhawks.

But it was all Florida after that. Sam Reinhart got his 30th goal of the season and added two assists, Matthew Tkachuk scored for the third time in the last four games and Florida gave coach Paul Maurice his 900th regular-season win. Maurice is the fourth to hit that milestone — Scotty Bowman (1,244), Joel Quenneville (969) and Barry Trotz (914).

Penguins 3, Predators 0 >> Sidney Crosby scored in his fourth straight game, Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves for his first shutout of the season and Pittsburgh blanked Nashville.

Crosby added an assist for his 484th multi-point game. Only six players in NHL history have more multi-point games.

Jets 5, Capitals 4, OT >> Alex Ovechkin scored the 877th goal of his career to move 18 away from breaking the NHL record, but Josh Morrissey’s second goal of the game was the winner.

The game was a showdown of the top two teams in the NHL.