BOSTON — Just when it looked like the Bruins’ TD Garden mojo was going to work its magic again, the malaise that’s haunted them on the road made a guest appearance on Causeway Street on Thursday.

The B’s erased a two-goal deficit early in the third period, only to give up two goals to the Western Conference Winnipeg Jets in 42 seconds and three in the first 5:56 of the third to make a late sprint to a 6-2 victory over the B’s.

Brad Marchand scored one of the B’s two goals but was in the box for two against, one after a bad penalty late in the second period. With the game out of reach, Marchand was tagged with a 10-minute misconduct.

The truth of the matter was that the B’s put in a game battle for most of the night, but Winnipeg is just that much better than them.

The Bruins found themselves in two-goal hole in the first period, but they got one back before the break.

Just 1:19 into the game, Marchand was called for crosschecking Dylan DeMelo. It was a marginal call — Marchand tapped DeMelo in the lower back and the defenseman went for a tumble — but the Jets and their top-ranked power play made it count.

At 2:55, Vladislav Namestnikov backhanded home a fat rebound from the low slot and, just like that, the B’s were on the chase.

It appeared that Winnipeg had taken a 2-0 lead at 5:51 when, off the rush, Josh Morrissey’s dart beat Joonas Korpisalo over the glove arm before the netminder could even raise it. But the B’s challenged for offside and, quickly, the goal was taken off the board when it showed Cole Perfetti had indeed jumped the gun.

But the Jets would get that second goal at 11:31. After Marchand could control a puck in the neutral zone, the Jets’ first line went on the attack. Eventually, Mark Scheifele deflected home a Neal Pionk point shot and you had that sinking feeling that this one was not going to be competitive.

Winnipeg, however, helped the B’s to get back in the game. Namestnikov took an offensive zone holding call against Charlie Coyle and the B’s cashed in on the power play. Marchand took a feed from Elias Lindholm near the left point and, with space in front of him, he drifted down to the top of the circle. Using David Pastrnak’s screen, Marchand snapped home his 19th of the year past Vezina front-runner Connor Hellebuyck at 15:34.

The B’s continued to stay in the fight in the second period. They needed a big save from Korpisalo when turnover and then a breakdown led to Namestnikov being all alone in front of the Boston net. He threw a good move at the netminder, but Korpisalo stoned him with a great pad save.

After Namestnikov took a tripping penalty late in the period, it appeared that Lindholm had the tying goal on his stick at the side of the crease and fair amount of open net in front of him, but he decided pass it back into the slot to no one and the chance passed.

Still, the B’s were in striking distance going into the third, though they made it hard on themselves after Marchand took an ill-advised offensive zone interference penalty with three seconds left in the second.

But Lindholm erased the memory of the passed-up chance 11 seconds into the third with a short-handed goal. Pavel Zacha won an offensive zone draw to Lindholm in the slot and he roofed it over Hellebuyck.

You would think a goal like that would spur a team upward, but you would be wrong in this case. The Jets answered with a pair of goals in just 42 seconds to rip the B’s hearts out.

The first came 22 seconds after the Lindholm goal with the Jets still on the power play. On a give-and-go, Scheifele took a feed from Nikolaj Ehlers and broke in alone on Korpisalo, lifting it over the goalie.

At 1:17 the Jets made it 4-2 on a gaffe from Mason Lohrei. After a bit of a scramble, Lohrei took the puck behind the net and came out on the right side. With Korpisalo out of position, Lohrei made the mistake of trying to beat the forecheck by cutting in front of the half-empty net. Ehlers simply flicked it off Lohrei’s stick and into the net.

That was a blow from which the B’s could not recover.

Parker Ford later scored in his NHL debut and the Jets were on their way. The Jets added an empty-netter late.

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