BOSTON -- It took five tries, but the Boston Bruins finally won on home ice Tuesday night.

And they did it by playing their best 60-minute game of the young season.

"It's a big thing, you know -- you want to get that first win and you know it's a city that expects wins, so you have to continue to be there every night and you have to compete and you have to continue to make this place a tough place to play," right winger Jimmy Hayes said after the Bruins scored an easy 6-0 victory over the Arizona Coyotes.

"I thought we played a pretty tight game -- defensively one of the better ones, overall 60 minutes," said Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask, who stopped 24 shots in his first shutout of the season. "Not too many openings. We blocked a lot of shots. I saw the puck well. Good game."

Rask, who surrendered 19 goals as the Bruins went 0-3-1 in their first four home games, had a relatively easy night as Boston won its second straight.

The Bruins (4-3-1) improved to 4-0-1 over their past five games, a stretch in which they scored 26 goals.

"Just keeping the goals against down, obviously that's always the goal, but today we managed to do that and I was telling guys before the game, you know, try to keep it three or under today, so we did that," Rask said after his 27th career shutout. "Very happy with that."

Rask, who won his only road start, helped the Bruins beat the Coyotes for the seventh straight time, the second time this season. Rask is 7-1 lifetime against Arizona, and none could have been much easier than this one.

Center David Krejci, who came into the game as the NHL's leading scorer, had two goals and extended his points streak to all eight games. Defenseman Joe Morrow, right winger Brett Connolly and left winger Brad Marchand (power play) also got the puck past Mike Smith in the Arizona goal.

Smith, who kept things respectable until midway through the third period, made 21 saves as the Coyotes (5-4-1) saw their two-game winning streak end. Smith fell to 3-11-0 lifetime against the Bruins.



Arizona was playing its fifth game in eight nights, its second in two nights, and for most of the game it looked like a tired team.

"It's not ideal to come play on back-to-back games like that, but that's not really an excuse," defenseman Zbynek Michalek said. "We could have played better than that."

Left winger Matt Beleskey, who returned to the Bruins' lineup after missing two games with an upper-body injury, right winger Loui Eriksson and Hayes recorded two assists apiece, while Marchand also had an assist in the win.

The Bruins defeated the Coyotes 5-3 in Glendale, Ariz., on Oct. 17. Krejci finished with a goal and two assists in that game. He has seven goals and 14 points in the eight games.

"He's off to a good start," Boston coach Claude Julien said. "It's all about confidence in this league, and he's gotten off to a good start. He's feeling good about his game. He's very healthy, as you can see. That makes a big difference. It's nice to have him back."

Connolly has scored in three consecutive games, while Beleskey notched the second two-assist game of his career.

NOTES: Bruins D Kevan Miller missed a third game for precautionary reasons after sustaining an undisclosed injury. ... Arizona C Martin Hanzal, who had an NHL-best 10 assists in the first nine games, sustained a lower-body injury in Monday night's win in Toronto. He did not play Tuesday. C Antoine Vermette, without a point in seven games, was also out with a lower-body injury. ... Coyotes LW John Scott dressed for his second game of the season and got 12 minutes in silly penalties in the third period while logging just 6:11 of ice time. ... The Bruins sent veteran LW Max Talbot to Providence. He dressed for just the first two games of the season. ... The Coyotes return home to open a three-game homestand against Vancouver on Friday night. The Bruins head south to play at Florida and Tampa Bay on Friday and Saturday.