INSTANT REACTION: Bruins Lose 6th Straight in 7-5 Loss to Ducks

INSTANT REACTION: Bruins Lose 6th Straight in 7-5 Loss to Ducks

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Welcome to Bruins overtime live presented by byota.com with Billy and Barry from our Wasabi studio. I’m Sophia. The Bruins lose 75 the final. And guys, I know that heartbreak is very relative, but in a first world hockey world type of thing, the last two games in the third period have been heartbreaking for the Boston Bruins. They look like they’re right there and then they end up losing. I’d say more disappointing than heartbreaking. Okay, I’m I’m too I’m feeling into my feminine emotions. I’m heartbroken. I’m sad. I I I understand. I I I I get that, but disappointing. Yeah, because I’m uh because you know, like cost them. Yeah, they’re this is mental breakdowns. This is not being able to take advantage of the good comeback, the energy. This is not, you know, every shift is a reset. Every opportunity you you you work your you know what’s off to get back to 55 and then you come out and it’s just you know it’s not that we’re going to do everything it takes to make sure that we are squared up. We are covered in our own zone. We’re going to make sure everything’s out. All the all the hockey cliche. Y and then they start again chasing. They start floating out of position. They give up opportunities middle of the ice, Barry. It’s it’s problematic this early in the season. It is. And at the end of the second, we said this is a huge third period for this hockey club because of the not only the ones that they have lost, but you have to, as Brick said, you’re starting the third period, they have to learn to win. Well, you start off the first period, you take a penalty in the offensive zone, 137 in for tripping. You lead the National Hockey League in penalties. Your best, one of your best penalty killers doesn’t get the puck out. Now all of a sudden, bang, you’re starting to chase the game. And then, as you say, you come back, you show some emotion, you show some grit, you tie the game up, Joel Quenville calls a timeout, they reset. They reset. 30 seconds later, boom, you’re chasing again. Yeah. Those are the types of mistakes. And on that goal, the Bruins and when we break them down, they have numbers back, but it’s very porous defense. It’s just like two guys, three guys going over here, wide open back there. And that’s in a crucial time of a hockey game when you got a chance to really like get some points. We’re going to show that to you, but first, why don’t we set it up just this whole little ride we had in the third period starting with David Posinox’s power. Well, they’re down 5-3 at this time and it quite honestly it it was crappy, you know, and and it’s 5 and 1/2 minutes here. It’s a nice little play by Makavoy gets it over and Popron sets it up. He’s so good at waiting here at Barry and and David just then he he rifles it but from a almost like a that how does he sling it that hard type thing and Morazzic’s like wait a second I know you check man because he’s checked too right and here he’s just going to flip it’s he flings it and Morazzic maybe overcommits a little to his left to his glove but waits for screens in front and just sizzles it up impressive and that was the key you had bodies going to the net it’s a simple play but as you know We say uh goal scorers have a way of finding the net and he does. They didn’t even announce the David Posa goal in the building when Nikita Zidorov takes it up and passes it to Morgan Geeki to tie it up and the place celebrated. Yeah. And as Brick said, the big fell started it early coming out of his end right here. He’s winding it up. He banks it off the boards to himself. He gets to the middle. Now he just keeps going and he lays a perfect backhand pass to Geeki for one time and and all of a sudden here you are 25 seconds later and we got ourselves a hockey game and I’m looking at you and I’m saying I can’t believe this. They’re in it. They got a chance to get some points. It’s like here we go man. I I I still can’t believe that they we’re going to show you the goal they give. But I’ll say this about Nikita Zidoro by far Barry. By far the best Bruins defenseman so far this season. Yeah. By far. Most consistent. Absolutely. And most impactful. He has been the most impactful. And and and you know, you don’t want to extend him too much. The big guy, you know, you don’t want to be playing him 26 27 a night. But if anybody deserves it right now, it’s Nikita Zidorov with how well that he’s played. This actually reminds me of a couple of years ago when he was with Vancouver in the playoff run when he had I think it was eight or 10 points and that and that’s why he ended up getting the nice contract from the Boston Bruins. This is the same type of play where you’re like, “Holy smokes, I didn’t, you know, I don’t see that often, but the big guys doing it. He’s been fantastic. You can’t say a bad word about him.” Well, why don’t we show you the breakdown? Why? And we showed this in second intermission twoon one. Like, why is Troy Terry all by himself? Well, you’re going to see two defenseman go to the same guy right there. Miscommunication. And you can almost see Charlie back avoid push Li from behind say you go. I got I don’t know who I’m going. It’s that lack of communication. We’ve been saying it and Rick’s been talking about it uh all season long. That guy speaks for all of us right there without saying a word. But right here, Sophie, your problem right here, you got one defenseman, two defenseman right there. They’re looking, they’re not seeing Terry back out now. All of a sudden, one pass beats two guys. But is it is it what you said in second intermission about just not getting the pieces of where the coverage? But this is No, this is not this is zone. This is this is zone. It’s supposed to be the puck comes down the wall. I don’t know if we can show it again, Derek. I don’t to our producer if we can. The the puck goes down there. Charlie had come over to support, but the but the real again if we can show it. It’s easier than just Can we play that again? The uh the Terry goal if we have it, please. And and then the reality, you know, the the read is Yeah, they’re they’re going back to it, folks. The you know, here you’ll see it. It’s a good keeping by the point. All right. Now, if you can’t kind of stop it there, you have numbers. Right there. Exactly. I don’t know if we if we can. So Charlie then because when the puck comes down the wall, he’s reading. He’s going too close to low to begin with. All Terry does then is reads too many. He sees two guys there and it’s wide open. So here’s low right on Terry. Okay, he’s good right here. Yeah, Charlie comes down to help a little, but then he gets caught puck watching soap and not watching the guy going to the front. That’s right here. You know, there’s no reason for both guys to be there. It’s an when I say an easy pass, but Nester Rinko had four assists in this game. The one pass beats uh two defenseman down low, but again, the Bruins, when you look at that and you stop it at the end, they’ve got four numbers back. They’re in good position defensively against two Anaheim Ducks. Mhm. One, it just uh they broke down defensively. Yeah. Yeah. And that’s been a theme uh in some of these losses. Let’s try to flip it on the positive. Fraser Mitten showing real bright spots. He’s still very young NHL career. These are some of his chances. Yeah, these were huge as uh opportunities here simply because of the score. So, Mitt’s going to have an opportunity here. He comes out of the corner and it looks like he’s got an empty net. Now, this would have made it three to one, Billy. This would have kind of not that you’re playing defense you’re going to be hold on to, but that kind of gives you an opportunity. Maybe you got a two-goal lead and you don’t get it. Here in the third period, you’re killing a penalty. You’re down by one the breakaway. All of a sudden, you know, if you get one there, you’re you’re tying things up. However, as positive as you want to be, Sophia, the frustrating part is, as we talked about with Brick and pregame, and we’ve been talking about it all year long in these losses, is that the Bruins are shooting themselves in the foot. They have the game right there at crucial times. And as again, I go back to what Brick said at the beginning of the third, you have to learn to win. Mhm. You have that game in that situation. They haven’t leared that

The Boston Bruins lose their 6th straight game against the Ducks. Sophia, Billy, and Barry discuss the loss on Overtime Live.