Now that’s a homecoming.

Rookie Fraser Minten, playing his first game in his hometown of Vancouver as an NHLer, scored his second goal of the game with 19 seconds left in overtime to lift the Bruins to a 3-2 victory over the Canucks in a game from which they were frankly fortunate to earn a single point.

With the B’s outshot 28-14 in the second and third periods as they took six penalties on the night, Jeremy Swayman continued to make a case for himself for Olympic playing time with a 31-save performance, including a couple of 10-bell ones while the B’s were killing penalties.

Swayman helped the B’s get to the extra session, in which the B’s possessed the puck most of the time. Just when it looked like the teams would be going to a shootout against the Canucks again, Minten shoveled home a rebound of a David Pastrnak shot that goalie Kevin Lankinen could not control and the unusually mature centerman looked very much like the 21-year-old kid he is as he erupted in celebration.

“Definitely an unbelievable moment, one of the coolest days of my life,” Minten told NESN.

Coming off his excellent performance in Edmonton on Wednesday, Swayman was every bit as good in Vancouver on Saturday in his third straight start. He was only beaten on two pucks off skates and he was their best penalty killer. Swayman made two tremendous saves on old friend Jake DeBrusk, the second of which looked like a sure goal before Swayman just got his skate on DeBrusk’s doorstep shot.

“It’s good to get games. But it’s also one of those seasons where we don’t get a lot of practice. You’ve got to make sure you’re dialed in, no matter how much rest you get or not. It’s why we’re pros,”  Swayman told reporters in Vancouver.

The B’s took a 1-0 lead into the first break on Minten’s first goal.

They started well and created several Grade A chances in the first six minutes. First a snake-bitten Morgan Geekie, now on season-long six-game goal-less streak and hit two posts (one in OT) on Saturday, stole the puck down low and clanged the post next to Lankinen. Then Minten sprung David Pastrnak for a clean breakaway but he couldn’t slip his backhander through Lankinen’s pads. Lankinen also stoned Geekie on a 2-on-1.

But the B’s cashed in on the power play late in the period when defenseman Elias Petterson was called for two minors in the same sequence, first a high-stick on Pastrnak and then a trip on Pavel Zacha on the delayed call.

The B’s scored on the first penalty at 17:24. Minten, the Vancouver homeboy who had 50-100 friends and family in the Rogers Arena crowd, was playing the bumper and he took an Alex Steeves feed, got into shooting position, turned and snapped his seventh of the year past Lankinen.

“I looked at him on the bench asked ‘How good did that one feel?’ Everyone knows what it’s like playing in your hometown,” said Steeves.

The B’s still had another full power play but it was negated halfway through by a Viktor Arvidsson slash.

It took the Canucks just 48 seconds to even it up in the second. From the right point, Filip Hronek sent a pass to the other Elias Petterson, the centerman, and the puck took a fortuitous bounce off Petterson’s skate, sending it between the pads of an upright Swayman.

But the B’s were able to regain the lead at 7:25 on another power play. With Max Sasson in the box for a dangerous crosscheck from behind on Casey Mittelstadt, Pastrnak found Elias Lindholm for a tip at the top of the crease, Lindholm’s seventh of the season.

The B’s maddening habit of taking too many penalties final nipped them at 18:44 of the second. Hampus Lindolm was called for holding behind the B’s net, their fifth of the night and fourth of the period. On the PP, Hronek took the puck deep and his centering pass appeared to go off Charlie McAvoy’s skate and in.

That sent the game into the third period deadlocked at 2-2 and, almost immediately, Pavel Zacha took an offensive zone holding penalty.

“For me, it’s on us, it’s on our individuals,” said coach Marco Sturm about the chronic penalty problem. “There’s a lot of guys who always take the same penalties so we just have to be smarter than that. It’s a tough league and I know it’s a skating team over there in Vancouver. But you still have to manage your sticks somehow. I don’t mind having penalties in your own end and in front of your net. You can take that all night but not in the offensive zone or different zones…If you take eight minutes out of the second period, our best players just sit on the bench.”

But the B’s killed it off and, despite being outshot 11-6 in the third, got it to OT. That’s when the hometown boy cashed in.

“He deserves every bit of it, one of the hardest workers on the team,” said Swayman of Minten. “He plays the right way, carries himself the right way, like a pro. It’s just awesome to see him get results like that. It’s expected now. He’s put himself in position to be an elite player and it’s really fun to watch.”