After successful back-to-back video games in opposition to groups within the playoff image, the Boston Bruins dropped a dispassionate sport to the lowly Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Heart on Tuesday night time.
Bruins interim head coach Joe Sacco didn’t mince phrases when he met with the media following Boston’s 7-2 lopsided loss.
“Simply the best way we managed the sport tonight. I didn’t like the best way we managed it,” Sacco mentioned. “You’re going to make errors in hockey that occur in the middle of a sport, but it surely’s how we reply proper after these errors.
“I felt like tonight, be it turnovers within the offensive zone after which not coming again into our D zone finding out our protection, some poor line modifications. Clearly, not a great response. A few objectives that we scored, they arrive out, and so they reply straight away. We’ve got to be higher than that, that subsequent shift. So, I’d say sport administration was probably the most disappointing factor right here tonight.”
The Bruins opened the scoring on Mason Lohrei’s third aim of the season within the first interval, however Tage Thompson received the equalizer lower than a minute later. Buffalo would add three extra objectives for a 4-1 lead early within the ultimate body.
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“You must respect your opponent, particularly offensively,” Sacco mentioned. “They’ve a great blue line, very cellular. They’ve some harmful forwards, as we noticed right here tonight. We simply weren’t adequate.
“I used to be in search of a bodily pushback after they scored three, 4 in a row there. Bodily means enjoying arduous on the puck, enjoying arduous with out the puck. I feel it’s each. We weren’t adequate in these areas tonight on the puck or away from the puck.”
Listed below are extra notes from Tuesday’s Bruins-Sabres sport:
— The Bruins allowed six or extra objectives for the sixth time this season. Jeremy Swayman was between the pipes for 4 of these contests.
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The Boston goaltender took the blame for the loss regardless of the Bruins being shorthanded on the blue line.
“I feel not giving my group an opportunity to win. I take delight in that each night time and I might have had a pair extra saves that may have stored the sport nearer, and that’s one thing that I must work on, and I’ll,” Swayman informed reporters in KeyBank Heart. “Everybody on this room is aware of that and I do know that everybody on this room goes to do the identical for his or her sport. That’s what now we have that not a variety of groups don’t, and we are able to take delight in that.”
— David Pastrnak prolonged his level streak to eight video games with a secondary help on Brad Marchand’s third-period power-play aim. The Bruins’ main scorer has seven objectives and 11 assists in that span.
— Thompson and JJ Peterka each recorded hat methods for the Sabres, the primary time two Buffalo gamers tallied three objectives every since 2008. It was the primary time the Bruins had surrendered a number of hat methods in the identical sport since Eric Daze and Steve Sullivan every recorded three objectives for the Blackhawks on Mar. 9, 2003.
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— The Bruins fell to 9-14-3 on the street, 9-6-2 in opposition to Atlantic Division opponents, 14-14-3 in opposition to Japanese Convention groups and 25-21-6 over all. They maintain a one-point benefit over the Tampa Bay Lightning and Columbus Blue Jackets within the Wild Card race.
— Boston begins a three-game homestand starting in opposition to the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night time. Puck drop from TD Backyard at 7 p.m. ET on NESN, following an hour of pregame protection.
