Tim Thomas stopped the Predators when it mattered in the Bruins' 4-3 shootout win. (AP)

Goals from Tyler Seguin and Patrice Bergeron delivered the Bruins a 4-3 shootout victory over the Predators Saturday afternoon at TD Garden. Tim Thomas stopped both shots he saw in the shootout and improved to 4-0 in shootouts this season.

Bergeron got the Bruins on the board at 16:00 of the first period with a shorthanded goal. The B’s held their lead until Shea Weber beat Thomas with a slap shot from the point for a power play goal at 7:32 of the second period. Daniel Paille gave the Bruins the lead back when he slid a backhander past Pekka Rinne 2:55 into the third period, but Patric Hornqvist tied the game minutes later. The Predators took the lead on a Mike Fisher backhander with less than four minutes to go in regulation, but a power play goal from Milan Lucic with 67 seconds to play tied the game.

The B’s will host the Eastern conference-leading Rangers Tuesday at TD Garden before embarking upon a six-game road trip.

WHAT WENT RIGHT FOR THE BRUINS

- The Bruins finally won a Saturday matinee game at the Garden. They entered Saturday 0-2-1 in such games this season before picking up the shootout win. Overall, the B’s are now 4-3-2 in matinees this season and 2-2-1 in Saturday matinees.

- The Bruins kept the puck in the Nashville zone early and often. The chances for the Predators were infrequent, and it showed when the team had just one shot on goal — Weber’s goal — through the first 15 minutes of the second period. The Predators ended up managing just six and seven shots on goal in the first and second periods, respectively.

- Good hustle out of Brad Marchand on the penalty kill to set up Bergeron’s shorthanded tally. He finished off his hard work with a drop-pass to Bergeron, who sent a wicked wrist shot past Rinne from the right circle. The play made for Bergeron’s first shorthanded goal of the season, and the team’s seventh.

- The fourth line certainly came to play Saturday, with Shawn Thornton getting a couple of opportunities on Rinne late in the second period. The line’s hard work finally paid off in the third period when Thornton sent a backhanded pass to Paille from the corner and Paille finished the play off in front with a backhander of his own. The goal was Paille’s ninth goal of the season.

WHAT WENT WRONG FOR THE BRUINS

- Saturday’s game featured consecutive periods in which the Predators’ first shot on goal went in. Weber’s goal came 7:32 into the second period, while Hornqvist’s tally came 9:33 into the third. Thomas had a lot of time to himself to begin the final two periods, something that can be difficult for goaltenders. That may have been the case Saturday.

- While the Predators didn’t have many chances for the majority of the second period, the one shot that went in was a scorcher from Weber. The Nashville captain is the annual runner-up to Zdeno Chara in the hardest shot competition, and he showed why with his blistering slap shot from the point on the power play Saturday. The goal was Weber’s 11th of the season.

- It wasn’t Adam McQuaid‘s best showing. No. 54 was the only Bruin with a negative rating (minus-1), and he took a delay of game penalty for sending the puck over the glass in the Bruins’ zone with 7:58 remaining in a tie game. It was the second consecutive game in which McQuaid took such a penalty, as he sent the puck over the glass from the Bruins’ zone in the second period of Wednesday’s 6-0 loss to the Sabres.