The Bruins, with juice in their legs and fury in their fists, scored a 1-0 victory over the Utah Hockey Club in Joe Sacco’s first game as interim coach Thursday night at TD Garden. Elias Lindholm snapped a 17-game goal drought and Mark Kastelic and Nikita Zadorov flexed their physicality as Boston snapped 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.

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 TD 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,