The 24-year-old forward has 17 goals and 37 points in 52 games this season.
J.T. Miller found the back of the net twice, but it wasn't enough as David Pastrnak's hat trick leads Boston to a 6-3 win over the Rangers.
The team announced just before the game was set to begin that Andrei Svechnikov will be sidelined with an upper-body injury.