Bruins Highlights & Analysis: Boston Unable to Snap Four-Game Losing Streak With Loss to Wild

Bruins Highlights & Analysis: Boston Unable to Snap Four-Game Losing Streak With Loss to Wild

[Applause] [Applause] welcome to Bruins overtime live presented by byat toyota.com for offers Not Seen On TV visit byat toyota.com with Billy and Barry I’m Sophia 3 to the final in favor of the Minnesota Wild guys in a game where we wanted to see a good response from the Bruins we saw it

In the first period but it all kind of went Minnesota’s way after that second period was awful MH that’s just what it was I mean it it was the complete story of the game and the Bruins tried to push at the end nowhere near enough second period was their demise in this game

They looked you know for a team that looked much faster than they did the previous night in the first period all of a sudden they looked much slower in the second period it was the ultimate jeckeln Hy or split personal it team from first to second barri and that

Completely shifted the game yeah they’re in a real bad spot right now mentally as a team you can see that they can’t sustain an effort for 60 minutes we knew at the beginning of the year when they got off to a great start we kept talking

About how good the goal tending was the goal tending again tonight was great it gave them an opportunity in that third period to come back but if it wasn’t for that spectacular goal tending they wouldn’t have had a chance and for a team that an organization that Prides

Themselves on team defense and structure uh that’s how you win games and how you win get keep moving in the playoffs that’s those are the teams that win they need as brick used the perfect word it’s a reset time they’ve this break comes they’ve got to try and uh regroup and

Get back to basics cuz right now to me they’re not playing a brewing style of hockey yeah no I it it basically these games are aump AAL that’s what they were there you go trying to be for the very fitting for the festival you got mine

Right I or I I gave you the coal there wasn’t enough coal I could give you well the Bruins December not being their best month uh this season of course let’s take a look at their last eight games so two three and three with a minus8 goal differential and as you

Mentioned uh earlier in the intermissions their power their penalty kill especially kind of going downhill outshot by their opponent in seven of their last eight games now Morgan geek couple Breakaway chances ended up scoring his fifth in this one yeah he’s going to end up getting a real nice pass

After a good effort by Heinen and and Frederick behind the net right here F1 and F2 get up for check hen’s going to get it patiently waits for geeky to stay between or above the uh very strong sweater Minnesota Wild and he ends up getting it one times it uh snap past

Mark Andre flurry and the Bruins feel like they have a little bit of glimmer they do I mean they’re only down a goal and they got kind of an oldfashioned basic goal right get the Pucket deep behind your opponents get the defense to turn around get some bodies in win some

One-on-one battles and you get rewarded we talked about that you and I were doing our own little predict the game back then we talked about how many more shots do we think they’re going to get they ended up getting too maybe unofficially two more shots right gave

Him a chance to come back but they couldn’t that was it they couldn’t muster anything after that geeki had a you know another good effort doing his thing he had those two breakaways I think he’d like to maybe have that move back in the first breakway we got maybe

Six or seven shots least six right getting on seven but yeah no so that was good but again nowhere near enough good in the second and third period a ton of good in the first yes and a lot of good for the wild in the second and third

Period as Krill the thrill capriso scored again against the Bruins in this one yeah and we talk about this line it seems like for the last since Tuesday Billy this line is good and boy of a set play you can see the Bruins get caught

With three guys high on a give and go and all of a sudden capriso is able to get that pass for from gagoski in the slot but again Billy right High one pass beats three guys and then they leave them and as we’ve been talking about one

Of the very soft areas for the Bruins that they controlled at the beginning of the year is in that slot area it’s been very soft they seem to be chasing the puck an awful lot now Barry and that to me says desperate as we take a look at

Their last two games against the Bruins these guys they’re good Billy huh oh my God again I hate but you’re without zuk Carell you’re also without Hartman by the way tonight Hartman’s a good player for these guys too but Capri sub Eric s Matt Baldi boldy quiet as far as points

Go in these last two games against the brunes you still hear his name a lot but check out I mean 20 minutes plus each per game for each of these three guys eek is having a selky type year Barry he’s going to probably be a finalist for

It at least it appears as of right now but capriso who was struggling earli under Dean Evon couldn’t find his way he’s happy now he’s finding his way now he is yeah and as we if you take a look at their numbers it tells a story but on

The ice the eye test too you could just see them all over it yeah they are the boss but this is sorry these are their power play uh chances and leading ultimately Dem Marcus yeah his situation just as the operative word that Billy just used is chasing watch the Bruins

Moving all over the place they’re not in a controll situation and uh you know Felino didn’t get a power play goal here but it was right at the end it might as well been a power play goal and again beginning of the year these are the types of of penalties that the Bruins

Were killing off but look they just get so spread out so gapped look at too many goals as brick had talked about in the blue paint area you’re not blocking out you’re not winning a battle and you’re not being physical enough in that area and you’re being outmuscled out mused I

Mean we saw lindol get outm muscled in the first you’re going to see car Carlo here not check he’s he’s watching the puck watching the puck and Felino completely it’s hard for a man as large as Felino know is it goes stealth I like to use that term you know but he comes

From behind to the front times it perfectly bullet pass through the top of the paint puts it into the net Carlo can’t lift the stick so yeah the the the the the watching of pucks and the lack of boxing out have been completely noticeable lately so I hope you’re right

I hope Brick’s right using that term reset I I hope but you know it’s a big reset and you know the sky feels like it’s completely falling it’s not there just yet but again bar let’s let go back to what we talked about much earlier in

The year were they 13 or 141 and three good no were they 0 and 327 goals against bad probably not but now we’re back to I know they have a couple of otls in here but we’re down to four games in a row right now so what are we

Do you know what this team is yet I don’t yet no no I don’t and I don’t also know I I mean I know the penalty killing is not nearly as good as it has been the last few years and especially the beginning of the year this year but the

Other thing to me being very uh obvious is the lack of push from offense from the back end I mean favor tonight for them very effective played a lot of minutes and controls the the pace of play the transition of play he’s the guy that kind of is their quarterback back

There the Bruins haven’t been getting that from their d as well no and speaking sticking with the plays by the defenseman they’re leaving the middle of the Ice open guys which allows Minnesota to do their thing well it’s again it’s not just manyi though here it’s just the

Ruins in general when the puck gets to the outside and teams are going low to high against them look at how they’re not able to close quickly enough and before their details with their sticks were great their were anticipation was excellent but right there low to high

Spin it around the top work it around and now you’ve got to get back to the house you got to get back to the middle of the ice to protect here you go again the accordion out big gap the gaps are like they’re chasing out only to have

The middle of the Ice open um I it’s I guess it’s striking because we’re not used to seeing it right you know but now we’re now we’re seeing it so let’s see maybe these three days off we’ll allow all of them to not think about hockey

For that time you when you look at uh when you get to an end of a season you look back and you kind of measure how successful you were it’s usually if you can avoid the long losing streaks instead of you know five to seven games

And you keep it two or three it makes for a good season you start having a couple of these long ones where are we on now we’re on four mhm all of a sudden it’s tough hole to dig out of

Instant analysis and highlights from the Bruins 3-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild on Saturday December 23, 2023.

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