{"id":20940,"date":"2025-10-24T06:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20940\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:35:16","slug":"bruins-losing-streak-stretches-to-six-with-7-5-loss-to-ducks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20940\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins losing streak stretches to six with 7-5 loss to Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the game in their reach at the start of the third period yet again, the Bruins failed to make the right plays at winning time on Thursday night at the Garden.<\/p>\n

Yet again.<\/p>\n

The B\u2019s coughed up three goals in the third period, plus an empty-netter, and fell to the Anaheim Ducks, 7-5, absorbing their sixth straight defeat in excruciating fashion. Again.<\/p>\n

With the score tied in the third, the B\u2019s gave up two goals before storming back to tie it quickly, only to allow the soul-sucking GWG less than a minute later.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmbarrassing\u201d was the word of the night. Joonas Korpisalo used it. Morgan Geekie used it. Same for Nikita Zadorov. Coach Marco Sturm concurred with them all.<\/p>\n

Defense and goaltending were supposed to this team\u2019s strength. They certainly were not on Thursday, and the team defense has been shoddy since the opening night win in Washington. We have not yet hit Halloween and it feels like this team is already for for its season, its very survival.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is devastating the way we\u2019re losing these games,\u201d said Charlie McAvoy, who was involved in a miscommunication on the game-winner. \u201cIt\u2019s killing us. We\u2019re fighting so hard and we just can\u2019t stop beating ourselves. It\u2019s pretty defeating right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t get any easier. The Colorado Avalanche, who outclassed the B\u2019s in Denver last week, are in town on Saturday. If this continues much longer, it may soon become time to insert some kids down in Providence, no matter what it means in the win-loss column. But listening to Sturm, who is certainly not ready to start coaching for the distant future, it didn\u2019t sound like that was an impending option.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think too many changes can be made, let\u2019s be honest. So the guys in here, including me, the guys in the room, we have to fix it,\u201d said Sturm.<\/p>\n

With score tied 3-3 in the third period, Viktor Arvidsson took an offensive zone tripping penalty at 1:37 and the Ducks made them pay. Troy Terry made a beautiful backhand pass through a crowd to Mikael Granlund and the veteran potted an easy goal into the half-empty net.<\/p>\n

With McAvoy in the box for neutral zone interference, Fraser Minten had a shorthanded bid to tie it up when he stole the puck at the blue line but on his breakaway chance, he could not lift his backhand attempt over goalie Petr Mrazek.<\/p>\n

The squandered chance cost them again when Stoneham\u2019s Sam Colangelo took Ryan Poehling\u2019s feed and beat Korpisalo for the first two-goal lead of the night.<\/p>\n

\"RossRoss Johnston (44) of the Anaheim Ducks and Tanner Jeannot of the Boston Bruins fight during the second period. (Photo By Matt Stone\/Boston Herald)<\/p>\n

But, for all their warts, the Bruins have resilience. They scored two goals in 25 seconds to tie the game. First, David Pastrnak scored on a long\u2013range wrister on the power play and then, with 5:03 left in regulation, Morgan Geekie scored his second of the game when he took a feed from a rushing Zadorov.<\/p>\n

But in a flashback from Tuesday\u2019s debacle against Florida, they handed the lead right back 30 seconds later. With Nikita Nesterenko handling the right side, it appeared that McAvoy was exhorting Mason Lohrei to get out more aggressively on Nesterenko, and wound up leaving Troy Terry alone in front for what would be the GWG.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth guys want to do the same thing, pretty much and all of a sudden they got caught and it\u2019s in our net. It\u2019s not just there but\u00a0 they way we played our wall, too. We\u2019ve got to be smarter than that,\u201d said Sturm. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing. When you give up seven, you can\u2019t win a hockey game. Especially not us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is the team still struggling to grasp his system?<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a good question. If you look at the goal, you would say yes. The frustrating part is, we\u2019ve done it so many times, we talked it over so many times and in certain situations, when you\u2019re under pressure almost, that\u2019s where we struggle the most,\u201d said Sturm.<\/p>\n

Mikael Granlund finished it off with an empty-netter.<\/p>\n

After the brutal loss, the players were in a soul-searching frame of mind. Geekie recognized the precipice this team may be on already, despite the fact that there are 73 games left. The winger, who scored a pair, sounded the alarm bell.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough to be glass half-full, to be honest with you,\u201d said Geekie. \u201cI think everybody\u2019s sick of it in here \u2014 the new guys, the guys that were here last year and went through everything and saw everybody get shipped out at the deadline. There is a lot of season left. You can\u2019t ruin your season at the start, but it can get out of hand pretty quick and I think that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen if we don\u2019t turn things around. It\u2019s a great group of guys in here but the reality is what we saw last year when you don\u2019t perform and that\u2019s the way things seem to be going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opening 20 minutes was a period of swings. The Bruins burst out of the gate and took the first lead at 2:10. Anaheim goalie Petr Mrazek, getting just his second start of the season, left a fat rebound of a Pavel Zacha shot for Casey Mittelstadt, who got under defenseman Pavel Mintyukov\u2019s stick check to put home his third of the season.<\/p>\n

The B\u2019s were firing away early and Mrazek was giving up rebounds, but the B\u2019s couldn\u2019t get to another one before the period was out.<\/p>\n

The young and talented Ducks found their footing eventually and started creating some good chances. In one sequence, Korpisalo came up with an excellent save on Alex Killorn down the slot and then lucked out when Cutter Gauthier heeled another glittering chance from the same area.<\/p>\n

But there was nothing Korpisalo could have done on Anaheim\u2019s tying goal at 8:06. Defenseman Drew Helleson came down from his right point position and nobody picked him up when Lohrei followed another Duck out high. From a bad angle, Helleson fired a shot that went off McAvoy\u2019s skate and in.<\/p>\n

The B\u2019s kept firing pucks at Mrazek in the first \u2013 they held a 19-12 advantage on the shot clock \u2013 but the teams went into the first intermission even at 1-1.<\/p>\n

On the first shift of the second period, Korpisalo was forced to make a great save on Nesterenko, who appeared to have the netminder down and out but he hit Korpisalo in the mask.<\/p>\n

\"MorganMorgan Geekie (39) of the Boston Bruins celebrates his tying goal during the third period, but the Bruins lost 7-5 to Anaheim at the TD Garden. (Photo By Matt Stone\/Boston Herald)<\/p>\n

The B\u2019s regained the lead at 8:49 on a good shift from the first line. After some pressure, McAvoy picked off a desperation clear in the neutral zone and gave it back to Pastrnak at the blue line. Pastrnak paused briefly for some help and dished to Geekie, who beat Mrazek with a wrister from the high slot for his fourth.<\/p>\n

They were so close to taking a two-goal lead shortly after that when Jeffrey Viel set up Minten in front, but Mrazek came up with his stop of the game.<\/p>\n

And wouldn\u2019t you know it, the Ducks then tied it up shortly after that when former Boston College star Gauthier beat Korpisalo with a long range wrister at 11:29.<\/p>\n

Tanner Jeannot \u2014 signed to a five-year, $17 million deal in the offseason \u2014 had not gotten into a fight yet this season, but he did not ease his way into his first bout, taking on Ducks\u2019 6-5 Ross Johnston, one of the toughest guys in the league. The two chatted at the red line during warmup and they eventually found each other at 12:14 of the second. In a true heavyweight clash, the\u00a0 combatants landed their share of heavy blows but eventually Jeannot started landing more consistently until they both ran out of gas.<\/p>\n

But the B\u2019s didn\u2019t get the bump they needed from it and, at 15:24, the Ducks took their first lead of the game. After an extended defensive shift for the Minten line, aided by an icing, Jacob Trouba came down from his right point spot and sneaked a shot through Korpisalo\u2019s glove arm and body for the 3-2 advantage.<\/p>\n

One soft goal deserved another, and the B\u2019s got one on their own on their first power play after Mintyukov high-sticked Elias Lindholm. Lohrei fired a quick shot on net that somehow eluded Mrazek for Lohrei\u2019s first at 17:10 to tie it up going into the third.<\/p>\n

The B\u2019s held a 32-18 shot advantage through two but the Ducks were getting some high-grade chances. And in spectacularly frustrating fashion, they pulled away from the B\u2019s in the wild third.<\/p>\n

While acknowledging the difficulty of the mistake-filled losses, Zadorov tried to strike a hopeful \u2014 if challenging \u2014 note.<\/p>\n

\u201cTomorrow is a new day,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re playing in the best league in the world, you have the best job in the world. You go out there, you work your balls off, excuse me for the language, but that\u2019s how we do it in here. It\u2019s Boston Bruins hockey. You have to go out and wear this jersey with pride. Saturday, why not? We\u2019re playing the best team in the league. They\u2019re coming in here, it\u2019s a Saturday afternoon game, a lot of people will be watching this game. So why not (turn it around) that day?\u201d<\/p>\n

But with this team thus far this season, everything is easier said than done.<\/p>\n

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