Bruins post game comments shows a team without direction
The Bruins lost 4-1 to the Islanders last night, but the most difficult thing to accept about the loss isn't the final score. It's that the Bruins looked dangerous all 1st period, but morphed into a disinterested shell of themselves in the 2nd and 3rd period.
The Bruins out shot the Isles 13-6 in the 1st period on their way to a 1-0 lead, but then things changed. The 2nd and 3rd saw the B's out shot by a 23-14 margin. Worst of all we never felt dangerous, not for more then a few seconds.
The post game player interviews were also very telling as the players seem to not have a direction or an answer.
"It's kind of been like that all year. Even when Brad [Marchand] is in the lineup, it's not like we're beating teams 6-5 or 4-3; it's usually a 3-2 win or 3-1 or 4-1 with an empty-netter, those kind of games that we have to be comfortable playing. Tonight, we were up one going into the second, that should be a signal to lay on the gas and keep going. Unfortunately, I don't think we did that."
"We left a couple points on the table, for sure." Taylor Hall
"We were the better team in the first period. They're at home, obviously got a lot of pride, and what happens a lot is if the home team doesn't have a good first period, they'll push in the second. We've addressed that, it happens to us a lot - New York [Rangers] the other night. We've just got to be ready for it and execute. Got to be able to execute at a level to stem the pushes that they have."
"We did have a chance on the power play. It let us down tonight. Would've been a timely goal for us. But didn't happenfirst pass execution on our breakout has not been good. We have to own that a little moreI thought we let some shooting opportunities get away on the power play." Bruce Cassidy
The Bruins clearly need to find some level of consistency or accountability or things could get out of hand quickly. Especially as a playoff matchup with Florida or Carolina looms.
