The shot was not exactly a high-percentage one, at least not by overtime standards.

That did not stop Morgan Geekie.

With the Bruins locked in an OT battle with the Los Angeles Kings on Friday, David Pastrnak made a nice play to corral Nikita Zadorov’s long pass up at the LA blue line and sent a cross-ice pass over to the Geekie on the right side.

With a Kings’ defender in front of him, Geekie skated it down to the top of the circle and just let it rip, smoking a snap shot past Darcy Kuemper’s far blocker side, lifting the B’s to a 2-1 victory that was much needed win after they spit up another game in Anaheim in Wednesday.

Maybe the right play there would have been to pull up and start cycling the puck as we often see in overtime, as teams hope to create the some sort of backdoor play with the open ice on the 3-on-3. But when you’re feeling it like Geekie is right now, no shot is a bad shot.

In a relatively short time, the 27-year-old Manitoba native has ascended into the pure sniper’s realm.

“Maybe a little bit of opportunity, too, and just being able to seize it a little better, too, and take advantage of that. Just kind of trusting myself more in those situations,” Geekie told reporters in LA after the game. “I don’t know if this time last year I would have taken that shot in overtime, just with the situation and where I was. But it’s easy to build confidence when you have confidence. I think over the last year, it’s been building.”

Geekie is shaping up as perhaps the best free agent signing in Don Sweeney’s tenure (though Zadorov may challenge for that title). It’s been a mixed bag with the high-end level signings for the GM, Sweeney and his pro scouts have done a pretty good job of scouring the league for serviceable bottom-six forwards on July 1.

And that’s what most of us thought he was signing when, after the Seattle Kraken simply decline to qualify Geekie in the summer of 2023 to make him a free agent, the B’s jumped. They signed him to a two-year deal worth $2 million a season.

At the time, Sweeney talked about Geekie possibly having some offensive abilities that had yet to be unlocked, but that sounded a little like a GM trying to remove any preconceived ceilings on a young player. In his two previous stops Carolina and Seattle, the 2017 third-round pick had not yet scored in double-digit goals.

But in his first season with the B’s, players began to see what Sweeney was talking about. Brad Marchand was an early booster of Geekie’s potential. Getting to play with Pastrnak late in the season helped him set a career-high in goals with 17.

Bigger things were hoped for him last season, but he stumbled out of the gate, as he had done the year before. Former coach Jim Montgomery healthy-scratched him four times early in the last season, and Geekie had little ammunition with which to argue. But from Thanksgiving on, he went on a tear, finishing with 33 goals and earning a six-year deal worth $5.5 million that could very well turn out to be a steal, too.

His overtime winner on Friday was his 16th of the season, putting him in a tie with Nathan MacKinnon for the league lead going into Saturday’s games. The hot start is his first with the B’s.

“He worked even more in the summer on his shot, on his release,” said Marco Sturm, whose team will continue their road trip on Sunday in San Jose (8 p.m.). “Everything pays off. It’s nice to see that hard work gets rewarded. I believe in that and he’s one of them (that does it).”

While his overtime winner was nice, the goal he scored in regulation to give the B’s the lead was perhaps more important, for both him and the team. Geekie will be the first to say that he’s benefited greatly from playing with Pastrnak. That doesn’t mean he’s just been standing around the net waiting for Pastrnak to bounce it off his skate and in.

Many of the goals he scored last year and this have been one-timers with a high degree of difficulty, goal scorer’s goals, if you will. But playing with Pastrnak allows any player just a little more time and space to operate.

But in LA, Sturm had separated the two, creating a second line with Geekie, Marat Khusnutdinov and Alex Steeves. That line had a dominant shift leading up to the goal, a booming slapper from Geekie high in the zone.

If the B’s can have two legitimate scoring lines, they will better for it.

“It was just a better fit overall. We spread it out a little,” said Sturm. “I thought the Czech line (Pastrnak, Pavel Zacha and Matej Blumel) was pretty good. The other guys were better, too. We just don’t want to put everything on one line and put the pressure on them all the time.”

We’ll see if Geekie can keep up this pace. But he’s now got belief in himself. His teammates believe in him, too. Earlier this season, Pastrnak went so far as to say that Geekie has the talent to score 50, quite a compliment coming from a guy who knows a thing or two about scoring goals.

“He’s always had that in him,” said Hampus Lindholm. “I think he just has that confidence right now, playing the big minutes. I’ve always seen that in him. And it’s just fun to see him showcase that it night in and night out here.”