Brad Marchand has served notice to the rest of the National Hockey League in a 24-hour span over the weekend.

He’s back.

After snapping an eight-game goal-less streak with the dramatic overtime winner against the Maple Leafs in Toronto on Saturday, the Bruins captain exploded for a natural hat trick in the span of 5:50 in the third period to erase a one-goal deficit and lift the B’s to a 3-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets at the Garden on Sunday.

All came on wrist shots, with the equalizer benefiting from a deflection, but the next two were pure snipes.

If the B’s are to make some noise this year, they’ll need their stars to be their best players. David Pastrnak has been that most of the year and now Marchand is making his impact.

The game was slow to boil.

Both teams had their chances to take the first lead of the game in the scoreless first period. The B’s got the first two power plays of the game and, though they had good zone time, the Columbus defenders packed it in pretty well to keep a plethora of pucks from goalie Spencer Martin.

The B’s best chance came on the second PP when Pavel Zacha had a rare, clean look at the net from the bottom of the right circle, but Martin made a glove snare of his wrist shot.

The Jackets pressured late in the period, with one Boone Jenner shot going off the crossbar, but it went into the first break at 0-0. Despite the B’s power plays, Columbus had a 8-6 shot advantage.

The B’s got the third PP of the game early in the second but, again, they were kept off the board thanks to Martin. Charlie Coyle and Jake DeBrusk played a nice give-and-go, resulting in a golden chance for Coyle, but he couldn’t get his one-time tap over Martin’s left pad.

Then after a long run of continuous play, Martin made two excellent saves in the same sequence, stopping a Charlie McAvoy slapper from the high slot and the Matt Poitras shot it back into Martin on the rebound.

But it was Columbus which broke the ice with 35 seconds left in the period on a simple play. Zach Werenski fired a shot into the pile in front of the net. It hit a body in front, and Mathieu Texier made a tight pass across the low slow to Jenner, who had cleverly given Charlie McAvoy a little nudge from behind to create space for himself and sweep that puck past Jeremy Swayman.

With the way the Jackets were eating pucks – they had 18 blocks in the first two periods – it looked like it was going to be an uphill climb for the B’s in the thrid period on the second half of the back-to-back.

But the B’s got it even at 1:56 of the third from the hero from Saturday night in Toronto. Kevin Shattenkirk blocked a Zach Werenski shot in the defensive zone and started the rush up to Coyle, who in turn moved it to Danton Heinen. Moving deep on the left wing, Heinen sent it back across to the right wing for Marchand, whose shot ticked off Werenski’s stick past Martin.

The captain then gave the B’s the lead on the power play at 5:36. With Dmitri Voronkov in the box on a questionable offensive zone tripping call, Marchand didn’t need a deflection for his 10th of the year, sniping a a wrist shot from the high slot over Martin’s glove for the 2-1 lead.

When you’re hot, you’re hot and Marchand was feeling quite warm. After he drew another penalty with a smart cut into the middle of the ice, he finished the natural hat trick at 7:46, this time going glove side again from the top of the left circle.

That would be enough for the B’s, who would even able to avoid the bugaboo late goal with the goalie pulled.