It’s fair to say not a single Bruin involved in yesterday’s 4-0 home loss to the Isles was happy with the performance.
Patrice Bergeron called it “unacceptable,” head coach Claude Julien said the B’s were “totally out of whack,” and David Backes said the game was “as frustrating as it gets.”
Sounds like the team in need of a break.
So on Tuesday, it took one:
Bruins cancel practice today. Patrice Bergeron called it a chance "to regroup" mentally and physically before playing Red Wings tomorrow
— Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) January 17, 2017
These are trying times for the B’s. The club’s struggled to find any sort of consistency since the calendar turned to 2017:
Consistency, or a lack thereof, seems to be the biggest issue. Wins are almost always followed up with losses and, just one game after the victory over Philly -- a game in which the B’s said their offense was finally “starting to connect” -- they failed to put a single puck past Thomas Greiss.
Despite all this, Boston still sits in reasonably good shape standings-wise. The Bruins are second in the Atlantic Division, on 51 points, but are only three clear of three teams in their rear view: Toronto, Ottawa and Florida, http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/bruins/bruins_insider/2017/01/bruins_fall_flat_in_matinee_loss_to_islanders