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There’s ‘a lot of negativity in the room’ as Bruins kick off five-game trip

Niklas Svedberg, Zdeno Chara

Niklas Svedberg, Zdeno Chara

AP

With three regulation defeats in their last four, including last night’s 5-3 home loss to Dallas, “negativity” has crept back into the Boston Bruins’ mindset -- just in time for a five-game road trip that starts Friday in Vancouver, before stops in Calgary, Edmonton, St. Louis and Chicago.

“You’re feeling so good, and everything is positive, and it kind of all goes the other way again... a lot of negativity in the room, I guess, this last weekend,” said d-man Dougie Hamilton, per CSN New England. “That’s what happens when you’re losing, and we have to find a way to change that obviously on this road trip.”

Not even two weeks ago, the B’s were ending the month of January on an 8-1-1 run. At the time, they had themselves a comfortable nine-point playoff cushion.

Today, that cushion has dwindled to just four points over the Florida Panthers, who also hold two games in hand.

“It is disappointing,” captain Zdeno Chara said after the Stars game, in which the B’s surrendered two short-handed goals and went 0-for-3 on the power play.

“We know that it was our last game for a while at home and now we have a long road trip.”