The Boston Bruins started their five-game highway journey with an embarrassing loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday evening.
The lone spotlight of the blowout, other than David Pastrnak’s tenth objective of the season, was the three straight third-period fights courtesy of Trent Frederic, Mark Kastelic and Nikita Zadorov.
The Bruins merely “weren’t good” in opposition to the Jets in each space of the sport.
“They have been excellent. They have been good, and we weren’t good,” Brad Marchand advised reporters in Winnipeg. “We weren’t executing. We have been shedding our protection, and we didn’t win sufficient battles. They have been good; they made performs, however we didn’t have a great recreation.”
Interim head coach Joe Sacco clearly agreed with the Bruins captain’s evaluation of what went incorrect on the loss.
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“They performed effectively tonight, they usually actually earned the 2 factors,” Sacco mentioned. “We didn’t. They have been only a higher group tonight, I assumed, just about from begin to end.”
The Bruins acquired into bother early, giving the second-best power-play group three alternatives, however Sacco felt Boston was nonetheless within the recreation by two durations of play.
“The penalties acquired us into just a little little bit of bother tonight, however general, simply, you recognize, it’s not the beginning of the highway journey that we needed,” Sacco mentioned. “It’s 3-1 after two durations. We’ve been in that place earlier than. We thought that we might actually work our manner again into the sport, however we didn’t.
“So, you don’t take an excessive amount of inventory on the finish of the sport when it’s 7, 8-1. However there’s issues that we have to deal with and proper. … I feel whether or not it was the facility play or 5-on-5, the penalty kill or 5-on-5, it’s an space that we take pleasure in, and we’ve gotten higher at, but it surely was a step again tonight, and we’ll get again on monitor.”
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Listed below are extra notes from Tuesday’s Bruins-Jets recreation:
— Jeremy Swayman gave up a career-high eight targets within the loss. He has given up six or extra targets in three video games this season.
“You’ve acquired to remain sharp for 60 minutes, they usually punished us,” Swayman advised reporters. “It’s not acceptable. And we’ve got to maneuver ahead, and by chance, we’ve got the group to do it.
“I feel among the targets that I let in, I do know I can cease, and that’s one thing that I maintain myself as a regular. If you let these in, it’s not an incredible feeling. So, I wish to be sure that doesn’t occur once more. Staying sharp, and enjoying my recreation, I do know that I can cease these targets. So, that’s what I’m going to do, and push ahead.”
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Usually, the skaters in entrance of a goalie would really feel they let their netminder down. Nonetheless, Marchand doesn’t imagine that was the case in opposition to the Jets.
“Probably not, everybody had a foul evening, he’s a part of it, he’s not singled out,” Marchand mentioned. “I don’t suppose anybody can put themselves in there and say that that they had a great recreation, so he’s a part of the group, it’s a part of the loss.”
— Pastrnak’s second-period tally was his fourth power-play objective of the season and his first since Oct. 26 in opposition to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
— The Bruins proceed their five-game highway journey on Thursday evening after they journey to Seattle to tackle the Kraken. Puck drop from Local weather Pledge Area is scheduled for 10 p.m. ET, and you’ll watch the sport following an hour of pregame protection on NESN.
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