Bruins Notes: Boston Not Starting On Time Led To Loss Vs. Golden Knights

BOSTON — There was a typical theme within the Boston Bruins locker room after their 4-3 shootout loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.

They didn’t begin on time.

Boston’s 14-game win streak on TD Backyard ice got here to an finish Monday evening by the hands of their ex-head coach. The Bruins didn’t begin the sport on time within the least, falling behind 3-0 earlier than they knew it. Between the undisciplined hockey, one-too-many passes and poor determination making, it felt the B’s had been out of this one shortly.

However issues modified when Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak made it a one-goal sport within the second interval earlier than Taylor Hall tied it on a second effort on the ability play within the third. Exhaustion had set in, although, and the Bruins simply couldn’t put the game-winner previous Golden Knights goalie Logan Thompson.

“This can be a nice group of gamers to teach. They by no means stop, they by no means cease believing,” head coach Jim Montgomery mentioned. “Down 3-0, we didn’t begin on time, that’s unlucky. We bought beat by the center of the ice too typically (Monday), that normally doesn’t occur to us. It type of jogged my memory of the sport in Ottawa, however this time we discovered a method to get again within the sport and get a degree. Their goalie performed very well, particularly within the second and third interval. It’s unlucky the streak got here to an finish. All of us knew it was gonna come to an finish sooner or later.”

Marchand, who bought the scoring began for the Bruins, mentioned whereas it was good to bounce again from a 3-0 deficit, not beginning on time is what harm the Black and Gold in opposition to a crew they knew can be prepared for them.

“We will come again in any state of affairs. Even once we bought down three we hadn’t performed good but and nonetheless loads of time left within the sport,” Marchand mentioned. “It was extra irritating that we let ourselves get in that place. We all know they’re an excellent crew and so they play onerous. They’re an older group, they’ve loads of expertise so we knew they’d be prepared, and we didn’t begin on time. It’s good that we battled again however we would have liked a greater begin.”