Lafferty jinked by three players on the edge of the box and played a one-two with Brunt before firing a crisp low shot into the bottom corner from 20 yards.
Moments later N'Zogbia sprung into life with a flash of star quality, ghosting past two Bolton players and driving into the box, only to see his crisp left-foot shot strike the inside of the far post and fly away to safety.
Neal took a crisp feed from Malkin from the high slot to the right circle and beat Nabokov with a tough-angle shot inside the right post to tie it 45 seconds after Strait's goal.
But Neal took a crisp feed from Evgeni Malkin from the high slot to the right circle and beat Nabokov with a tough-angle shot inside the right post to tie it 45 seconds after Strait's goal.