BOSTON — The Bruins definitely didn’t have any scarcity of offensive alternatives in a house matchup towards the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night time.
Boston ripped 32 pictures at Vancouver goaltender Kevin Lankinen and earned three power-play possibilities. These alternatives didn’t quantity to a single purpose in a 2-0 loss to Vancouver in one other rematch of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.
The Bruins haven’t scored greater than two objectives in a recreation since their 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Nov. 12. The loss to the Canucks was the primary recreation Boston dropped since interim head coach Joe Sacco took over for Jim Montgomery, now leaving the membership with a precedence shifting ahead.
“I believed we had a variety of attractiveness tonight,” Charlie McAvoy mentioned. “It stings proper now. … It’s a must to (imagine) the dam’s gonna break sooner or later. Simply hope it’s quickly. We gotta preserve taking part in the appropriate method.”
Former Bruin Jake DeBrusk thought Boston outplayed Vancouver on that aspect of the puck Tuesday night time, simply as McAvoy did.
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“Apart from that, we performed fairly good,” McAvoy mentioned. “We had extra pictures than them. I believed we carried play higher. I believed we had extra O-zone time. I believed we had extra appears to be like. We simply didn’t rating.”
The Bruins are doing the little issues proper to generate high quality possibilities. Now, they should convert them to get momentum rolling beneath a brand new head teaching regime.
“I feel it has helped our offensive recreation,” McAvoy mentioned. “We simply can’t rating.”
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Listed here are extra notes from Tuesday’s Canucks-Bruins recreation:
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— The Bruins honored former Boston gamers in DeBrusk and Danton Heinen with video tributes and an ovation from the group of their respective returns.
— Vancouver’s protection bought bodily to again up Lankinen’s very good goaltending with 26 blocked pictures towards Boston. The Bruins knocked down 11 pictures defensively within the loss.
— Jeremy Swayman allowed only one purpose on the night time to completed with 13 saves. He credited his latest modifications to a “mini coaching camp” through the season with Bruins goaltending coach Bob Essensa.
— The Canucks continued their dominant highway begin to the season as they improved to 8-1-0 exterior of Vancouver. DeBrusk has additionally scored all six of his objectives this season on the highway.
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— DeBrusk netted the sport’s first purpose because the spotlight of what he described as a “bizarre” return to Boston towards the Bruins.
— The Bruins are proper again in motion Wednesday night time at UBS Area towards the New York Islanders. Puck drop is about for 7:30 p.m. ET. You may catch the sport, plus an hour of pregame protection, on NESN.
