Jeremy Swayman sits out against Ottawa with upper body injury

Michael DiPietro served as Korpisalo’s backup. DiPietro was summoned from AHL Providence in the afternoon and was in Boston Black and Gold for the first time since joining the franchise.

DiPietro, 25, originally a Canucks draft pick (third round, No. 64 overall in 2017), was swapped here in October 2022 when the Bruins sent highly-touted prospect Jack Studnicka to the Canucks.

A stocky 6-feet and 211 pounds, DiPietro this season in Providence has played his way into the franchise’s No. 3 netminder spot, ahead of Brandon Bussi.

Prior to getting called up on Thursday, DiPietro was 14-5-3 with the WannaBs, with a 1.95 goals-against average and .930 save percentage. His GAA ranked second in the league and his save percentage fourth.

Studnicka, a forward who some thought one day could emerge as a Bruins team captain, was flipped to San Jose just over a year after his arrival in Vancouver. He signed as a free agent with the Kings this past summer and has spent the season at AHL Ontario (Calif.), some 40 miles east of the devastating fires around Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Trent Frederic was back in the Bruins lineup after missing back-to-back games due to illness.

The rest of the walking wounded remained hors de combat, including top defensemen Charlie McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm, and winger Cole Koepke. Sacco said he was unable to offer a timeline as to when any of them would return.

The long-comatose Bruins power play, slightly shaken from its slumber of late, was blanked again (0-for-3) in Wednesday’s thumping against the Devils.

The bagel was made all the worse by the fact the Devils potted three goals (on seven chances) with their man-advantage. It was the seventh time this season the Bruins surrendered three power-play goals to the opposition.

Prior to the stop at the Rock, the Bruins had scored four times on the advantage in their previous four games. That fairly humble haul stood as the best they have performed over a four-game stretch all season.

In their 100-plus years of chasing rubber around a rink, the Bruins only twice have been burned more than seven times for three power-play goals (or more) in a single season.

In 2006-07, opponents connected for three or more in eight games, totaling 27 PPGs in those games. It also happened in eight games in 1985-86, with the Bruins surrendering 26 PPGs.

Scoring the first goal of the game typically has been a harbinger of good things for the Bruins (and for most NHL teams). Entering Wednesday night’s game in Newark, they were a robust 15-4-3 (.750) this season when scoring the 1-0 goal, which made Morgan Geekie’s one-timer for the lead in the first period against the Devils look encouraging.

All the good, good, good vibrations disappeared when the Devils pounded Swayman with 17 shots in the second and rolled up a 4-1 lead.

It was the second time this season that Geekie scored the game’s opening goal, tying him with Elias Lindholm, Brad Marchand, and Charlie Coyle with a pair of 1-0 party-starters.

Topping the list of game-opening goals: Justin Brazeau (5) and Koepke (3).

Cale Makar, the stellar former UMass Amherst backliner, will make his only visit to the Garden Saturday with the Avs in town for a 1 p.m. matinee.

Makar played two seasons with the Minutemen (2017-19) before transitioning seamlessly into the NHL, winning the Calder Trophy (Rookie of the Year) in 2020 and then both the Norris (top defenseman) and Conn Smythe (playoff MVP) in ‘22.

In his four-plus NHL seasons on the Colorado backline, Makar, 26, has been the league’s most prolific defenseman, with a career line of 102-287-389 as of Thursday morning. Next in line: Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes (381 points) and Nashville’s Roman Josi (372).

Makar again this season tops all defensemen in point production (16-37–53 prior to Thursday night’s games).

Following the visit by the Avs, the Bruins won’t play again until their stop in Buffalo Tuesday night. The Jets make their only visit this year to the Garden on Thursday prior to the revitalized Rangers coming to town for a Saturday matinee.

Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at kevin.dupont@globe.com.