FINAL SCORE: Blue Jackets 7, Bruins 4
IN BRIEF: The Bruins rallied from a four-goal deficit to make it a one-goal game, thanks in part to two goals from Brad Marchand, but couldn't hold off Columbus in a 7-4 loss that was their second in a row following their 19-game points streak. BOX SCORE.
BRUINS RECORD: 42-19-9, 93 points, second in the Atlantic Division
HIGHLIGHTS:
MARCHAND AGAIN REACHES 30-GOAL MILESTONE:
A CAREER-HIGH FOURTH SHORT-HANDED GOAL FOR BERGERON:
FROM JOE HAGGERTY:
*The pattern continues for the Black and Gold as they’re allowing themselves to fall into early deficits and just allowing way too many goals. That's 11 allowed in the past two games. It was a seven spot to Columbus in the loss to the Blue Jackets and they are again learning that they can’t come back against playoff-caliber teams. As much as the B’s are showing heart by fighting back into these games and making it competitive in the third period, they aren’t giving themselves a chance to win with the way they’re starting games after falling behind 5-1 in the second period before they started really playing on Tuesday night.
Boston Bruins
*Really terrible first period for Torey Krug, who was a minus-3 and was really at the heart of all three goals into the back of the Boston net. The final one was the real backbreaker as it was a Krug neutral zone turnover on the power play in the final seconds of the first period that turned into a Josh Anderson shorthanded rush, and then Boone Jenner crashing the net for the follow-up rebound score. That isn’t even counting Anderson going right around Krug for the first Columbus goal and Krug around the net watching as Ryan Dzingel scored a goal in the third try in front of the Boston net.
*Despite the loss, all the credit in the world to the Bruins for fighting back into the game in the second period after falling down 5-1. They scrapped and clawed their way back into things with three unanswered goals in the second half of the second period. It all transpired after Tuukka Rask was pulled from the game and that perhaps served as a wakeup call to a B’s team that was completely sleepwalking their way through the game.
*Two goals, three points and another 30-goal season for Brad Marchand, who was dangerous much of the night with a slick backhand-to-forehand bullet past Sergei Bobrovsky after a Patrice Bergeron face-off win in the offensive zone. It’s the fourth consecutive 30-goal season for Marchand in a real testament to his skill and dangerousness with the puck. Marchand is also showing that swagger that’s helping the B’s believe they can come back from a big deficit and that is an important thing.
UP NEXT:
At Jets, Thursday, 8 p.m., NESN
Vs. Blue Jackets, Saturday, 7 p.m., NESN
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