BOSTON — The Bruins can not get out of their very own method.
Thursday’s 5-2 loss to the Dallas Stars marked a 3rd consecutive defeat for the Bruins with one other spherical of self-inflicted errors. Boston logged 5 penalties that led to 3 power-play targets for Dallas, all of which got here in a row to open the second interval.
Jim Montgomery sat on the podium after the sport with a transparent message for the place his group should enhance after a 3-4-1 begin.
“It’s fairly important, however our attitudes have to go in a greater, more healthy course,” Montgomery informed reporters. “Attempt to management what you possibly can management. Try to excel at your position. Our attitudes aren’t within the second, they’re on outcomes.”
Montgomery continued: “When your perspective is on outcomes, you are inclined to take too many penalties since you get pissed off shortly. You have a tendency to show the puck over loads since you don’t wish to work for the offense. You need outcomes immediately. That perspective of not prepared to work for what we wish to get to our group recreation is inflicting some struggles proper now.”
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Montgomery visibly lit into the group throughout a timeout within the second interval to arrange a penalty kill try, specializing in simplifying a bodily method. Discovering consistency in attitudes can be a precedence for the Bruins within the coming days.
“If you don’t work, what occurs is your perspective begins to get extra towards outcomes,” Montgomery added. “You neglect how arduous you must work on this league. In the event you’re not targeted on habits and particulars, you’re going to get pissed off and the margins of error aren’t very massive on this league. We’re on the incorrect facet proper now and I believe our attitudes are driving it.”
Boston captain Brad Marchand known as upon himself and different Bruins veterans to correctly prepared the ground via the tough stretch.
“It’s a bit little bit of our personal doing,” Marchand informed reporters. “We’re not caring for pucks on the proper time. We’re taking too many penalties. There’s positively areas that we are able to clear up. … We gotta get again to taking part in the correct method for 60 minutes and doing the correct issues on a regular basis. Understanding that success is tough and we have to play a tough recreation to win. That’s how we’ve at all times gained.”
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“We don’t like these outcomes,” Charlie McAvoy informed reporters. “We’re acknowledging that. It’s totally different from what we’ve had prior to now the place we’ve come out operating and gunning.”
Listed here are extra notes from Thursday’s Stars-Bruins recreation:
— Boston’s allowed 11 penalties over the past two video games, “taxing” the penalty-kill unit that entered Thursday’s because the eight-best unit within the NHL. The Bruins have work to do to revive that manufacturing.
— Along with scoring three straight power-play targets to open the second interval, the Stars ripped the tempo away from the Bruins with a 13-5 shot benefit within the center 20 minutes on Thursday evening.
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— Dallas ahead and former Boston star Tyler Seguin discovered the again of the web on Thursday evening for his eighth profession purpose towards the Bruins.
— With quite a few man-advantages to defend, Jeremy Swayman allowed 4 or extra targets for the third time this season.
— NESN aired its first hockey installment of “Unobstructed Views” on NESN+ with Andrew Raycroft joined by former Bruins champions Patrice Bergeron and Tuukka Rask.
— The Bruins return to motion on Saturday evening within the season’s first rematch of the earlier first-round playoff sequence towards the Toronto Maple Leafs. Puck drop is ready for 7 p.m. ET at TD Backyard. You’ll be able to catch the sport, plus an hour of pregame protection, on NESN.
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