The Bruins' other two goals on Saturday afternoon came from the third line with Charlie Coyle and Oskar Steen notching one apiece. Steen's tally tied the game, 1-1, with 8:23 left in the first period after he collected a Coyle attempt at the top of the crease and put it past Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck. Coyle knotted things, 2-2, at 2:31 of the second when he tipped home a Derek Forbort shot from the point.
"If you want to be a good team, you need contributions from everyone, and tonight, they did their job and then some offensively," said Cassidy. "I liked all three. Big part of our win, and that's always good for team building and for success when different lines contribute. They were certainly, I would say, our best tonight."
Steen picked up his second career goal - this one far more traditional than his first - after sitting out Thursday's win over Washington as a healthy scratch. With Anton Blidh out with an upper-body injury, the winger was given an opportunity to re-enter the lineup.
"Two schools of thought with that," said Cassidy. "We've done that in the past with guys, it hasn't worked out well, and other guys have taken it well. He's not the first, won't be the last. There's situations where you get 13 healthy forwards that someone has to sit, and in this particular case, it was him. Wasn't because of necessarily one bad game. It was a situation where, 'Hey, go up, watch a game. We're going to get you back in there was the plan.'
"Now we have a couple of injuries that made that a little bit easier, but it wasn't going to be long-term. We liked the way he was playing. It's how you respond a lot of the times in those situations. He's responded very well with effort today, gets rewarded with a goal."
DeBrusk, meanwhile, collected a secondary helper on Steen's marker, giving him three points (goal, two assists) in the last two games.
"He has his legs which helps because that is his greatest attribute," said Cassidy. "He can outskate a lot of people out there, and when he is on top of people, it makes a difference; and when he gets pucks in loose ice, he backs people off and challenges people and puts people under duress. That's what we like about Jake. Compete on the puck. We've said that from Day 1. We want that every night; we're getting it."