View Link<\/a><\/p>\nBruins lose, 3-1 final.<\/p>\n
Game notes<\/p>\n
Yikes. You can look at the Florida game as one where the team got off to a slow start, got going, and got goalie\u2019d a bit. Tonight was almost the opposite, with the B\u2019s playing well early (they outshot Tampa 19-13 in the first two periods) before falling apart.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t to pin a loss on a single player, but that Raddysh goal can\u2019t happen. Swayman cannot get beat from there, let alone in the last six minutes of the third period. The entire sequence looked like something you\u2019d have happen to you when playing NHL23 (or pick your year) online: random defenseman gets the puck in the neutral zone, skates up the ice unbothered, shoots from a weird angle, scores, then some teenager starts swearing at you.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s much in this, but it\u2019s worth noting that both of Tampa\u2019s non-empty-net goals came off of plays that started in their own zone. I know that\u2019s usually true of every goal if you rewind it far enough, but both goals seemed to come with the Bruins getting caught flat-footed when an offensive attempt petered out.<\/p>\n
The Bruins went 0-for-4 on the power play, which certainly didn\u2019t help matters. They had two chances in the first period, then had a big power play chance just two minutes after D\u2019Astous\u2019s goal, only to come up empty. NOT GREAT.<\/p>\n
Also in the \u201cNOT GREAT\u201d file, the Bruins managed just three shots on goal in the third period. Yes, Tampa had as many goals as the Bruins had shots. I am not a paid analyst, but you\u2019re not going to win that many games when that happens.<\/p>\n
Mittelstadt\u2019s goal was his 15th of the season, equaling his previous career high; that came back in 2023 with the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n
Depending on your mood at the moment, the Bruins either blew a big opportunity with this game or caught a big break tonight. They failed to pick up any points, but Detroit, Ottawa, Columbus, and the Islanders all lost Saturday as well, so the Bruins didn\u2019t really lose any ground.<\/p>\n
Montreal did end up winning on Saturday, putting that third spot in the Atlantic a bit further out of reach. They\u2019re now six points ahead of the Bruins, with a game in hand as well.<\/p>\n
Some minor housekeeping: with this recap up and a 3:30 PM game tomorrow, there won\u2019t be a separate preview for that game.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll put up a Public Skate a bit earlier than usual, so feel free to congregate there.<\/p>\n
If you observe, Happy Easter. If you don\u2019t, Happy Sunday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perhaps it\u2019s time for us to just accept that the Bruins and Florida Men don\u2019t pair well together.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[858,53183,53265,6499,47,99444,9662,99453,44030,16976,96096,135,1526,137,136,99454],"class_list":{"0":"post-219212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-darren-raddysh","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-fl","13":"tag-jeremy-swayman","14":"tag-lightning","15":"tag-mittelstadt","16":"tag-montreal","17":"tag-nikita-kucherov","18":"tag-ottawa","19":"tag-tampa","20":"tag-tampa-bay","21":"tag-tampa-headlines","22":"tag-tampa-news","23":"tag-viktor-arvidsson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}