Joonas Korpisalo stopped 21 shots, Elias Lindholm scored the game’s only goal, and the Boston Bruins beat the Utah Hockey Club 1-0 on Thursday night in their first game since the team fired coach Jim Montgomery and named Joe Sacco as interim coach.

As far as baby steps go, the Bruins took a pretty good one in Joe Sacco’s first game as head coach on Thursday at the Garden. The B’s received a second-period power-play goal from Elias Lindholm (!) and then relied on Joonas Korpisalo (along with his friend the post) to snap a three-game losing streak,

Elias Lindholm, whose offensive woes have been a much-discussed part of the Bruins’ early woes, broke his 17-game goal drought in the second period. On the power play and jammed home the rebound a Brad Marchand shot to put Boston up 1-0 with 7:19 left in the second.