INSTANT REACTION: Bruins Fall 7-2 in Loss to Senators

INSTANT REACTION: Bruins Fall 7-2 in Loss to Senators

[Applause] Welcome to Bruins overtime live presented by buyatyota.com. For offers not seen on TV, visit buyatyota.com. for Ottawa Senators fans. And I know you guys aren’t watching Nessen. Good news for them. They win again and they score seven goals in their last two games each. So give them 14 total. Sophia with PJ and Razer. The Bruins lose seven to the final to the Suns. Gentlemen, we’re going to have a discussion. We’re going to have a discussion about the Bruins effort because that’s what we were seeing uh today that it was evident that in a lot of places it wasn’t there. Razer, I want to start with you because dating back to last year, you saw what that was like. You’ve seen the highs and low of this season. What did you make of tonight when we’re considering that big picture? Don’t look at me like that. I just PJ laughing already. No, I’m just Well, listen, you can’t penalty kills been very good this year. They just went four for five. And you had Charlie Makavoy and Nikita Zidorov take six penalty minutes, six penalty, three penalties in the third period. They got scored on on all three of those power plays. Uh the game got away from them. They they did not play well enough at the start of the game. They did not play well enough in the second period. And then the push back that we’ve seen this year, the fight, the energy despite the leads that they’ve been giving up was not there tonight. And now you’re staring at a 1 and seven in your last eight. You’ve given up seven goals against in two of your last three games. It the numbers are starting to pile up in the wrong way here negatively and and Brick just said it. There’s an opportunity to reload tomorrow night, but this has this has a feeling of of things getting a little out of control here. I’m really curious to hear what Marco Sturm says about the game today because again, there wasn’t a lot of hope in today’s game that we’ve seen despite the losses over the last 10 days. There’s been hope. Today was a little less hopeful. PE a little less. A little less. Had a touchdown score on them today. It was And Brick said it’s He’s so right. Like you have to have a short memory, right? Cuz they play again tomorrow. Yep. So that’s professional sports short memory. You’re and just move on to the next one. Except for your point, they’re piling up. Yeah. Like and the problem with the Olympics this year is the condensed schedule. They’re flying back from Canada tonight. Get home late, play a team that’s been sitting in their town. It’s not going to get any easier tomorrow night. Um, and they have to be ready and bounce back from this team. And they have to have a short memory, but you have to start looking at all these mistakes that they’re making on a nightly basis. And we kind of went through a pack earlier about, you know, they’re getting some offensive moments. Uh, and they don’t have as many goal natural goal scorers as other teams do. Um, so they have to survive on the defensive side of the puck and making sure they’re strong there. And you showed a pack earlier about them getting good offensive chances. And we know they’re going to be a good defensive team, but it’s their defensive side that is costing them. Um, and it cost them again tonight. Too easy. At the end of the day, that’s really like listening you talk it. It was too easy to get for it was too easy for the Ottawa Senators to score seven goals. It should never be easy for an NHL team to score seven goals in a game. Yeah, we we never First of all, I’m an ex player. The last thing I want to do is walk up and say stuff here about, you know, it’s it being too easy. Uh I I bet you if the players watch this game tonight and they go back and look at it was too easy. Like there was times where it was a in the third period there was a one in on five in front of Swayman and the Senators got the goal. Mhm. Uh Brick also said that you know what what hurt them was the second period, the two goals in the second period. Yeah. And the first one was a simple play, you know, a skate through on a play and a not the strongest back check. And those are all effort. Those are things that are fixable, though. Uh and you just got to find a way and want to find a way. Got to buy in. Yeah, you got to buy. Got to buy in. And that’s that’s something that Marco Sturmer has been talking about a lot that uh they despite having this great training c camp a lot of the guys saying one of the best ones they’ve ever been in. Marco Sturmer has been saying that Bayern hasn’t been there with everyone at the same time this season. So we’ll see what he says like to your point uh to Brick Razer. But let’s get into it. Let’s show you some of what the guys are talking about. Drake Bath, three points on the night, two goals, and we’re going to show you both of them right now. One of them a power play goal. Uh but let’s get into it. I came off with the Eastmon penalty early in the game and we were just saying don’t take penalties because this team has their penalt their PK is one of the worst in the league but their power play is sixth in the league in well first period third fourth now yeah they just moved up they would drill well today so right one of the hottest guys uh for this team seven points in the last five games and you leave him all alone yes they overloaded one side but they get it there all alone swimming makes the great save but he’s by himself Person goes upstairs. No, that’s right. And then this is the the third goal here where we have the puck full control. Boston Bruins have full control behind the net. Um reverse gets made and once you have a giveaway, you have now you have two defenseman behind the net. You have your center behind all below the goal line. Look, we got a center, we got two defenseman in behind the goal line. We only have one Ottawa senator there, which means there’s going to be a guy all alone in front of the net, and that’s Waterson, which is one of the hottest guys, the worst guy to leave if you’re a Bruins fan. And he is our Subaru star of the game. These are his numbers in the last five games. Nine points, a plus three, two power play goals. Tonight, his 16th career threepoint game. Razer, this might completely be different than what you and Billy talked about a few weeks ago, but do you remember we had a postgame show and maybe it was in an intermissions. We were talking about the Bruins chances, but they weren’t generating shots. Like they were getting chances, they just shot wasn’t going on the goal. Here we want to talk about the Bruins chances with the lack of finish. Is it different than what we were talking about a couple weeks ago? Well, they got 29 shots. So, it wasn’t quite like I think it might have been Colorado or where they end up 14 shots. So there the volume’s there a little bit, but these these plays that we’re going to watch it and if we had the shot clock like they’re they’re far out. Like Levi Marinan had a perfect bounceback night for him. He gave up seven goals on 26 shots his first game. This was a perfect game. This was this was low stress on the other end. And and there was you know you have David Paster that’s for any if it’s anyone else that’s actually not a chance but for David he creates chances that that don’t look it. But still, it’s a show along the ice far side and and certainly in Levi’s wheelhouse. Um, a little bit of chaos in front, but but all in all, you put the two sheets together of of the chances and and where Ottawa had their chances, where Boston had theirs, it’s it wasn’t much of a game like the score. Uh, I I’m trying to think of positive things after night besides you can have a short memory. Right. Right. That’s that’s the thing. I just I don’t think anything really went well. Uh we talked about they we mentioned they got to move their feet, get to the middle of the ice, and on the flip side, you know, protect our middle of the ice and keep the puck on the outside. It didn’t work either way for them. Uh try, you know, they’re a very strong faceoff team, the top team in the league. You know, try to your best on those faceoffs as they’re number three. They got schooled in that book. So Ottawa starting with the puck all the time. It’s okay. They start with it. Let’s just go to our structure and be strong defensively. We haven’t been great, but that Colorado win gave us a little bit of, you know, a little little swag. We got this. We can defend against the best team in in the league right now. And tonight was a tough one. Like, like you showed how they’re they have the puck behind the net. There’s no one around them. And three of them fumble it. And if somehow it ends up all alone and Swayman’s on an island there with the hottest guy in the league right now shooting at him. So, it’s it was it was a tough night. It was a tough night. hopefully they can bounce back tomorrow. And you were right in this chair. Uh in second intermission, we were talking about down two goals. Razer pointed out, we’ve seen it. They’ve come back. They’ve had good thirds. Let’s show you the start of the third period. Tim Stutsa uh getting on the board. Power play. 8 seconds into the period. Could not have had a worse start. Exactly. Uh Brick said this is 8 seconds in. They take a penalty. We just we just talked about the period before 68 seconds in. They gave up that goal as you mentioned. Mhm. Um and then 8 seconds into this one, the third period, which is going to be you talk to them, they can come back, but they come back two goals in. So now we are going to be 13 seconds into this period and it’s 4-1. Don’t take a penalty, they take a penalty, block the shot, keep them to the outside. Uh I can’t say this is this is a good shot. He’s a good goalie on a tough night. But um Brick says right after that, this is the worst way to start a period. He’s kind of sitting there and he’s calling the game. It was a tough night. It’s uh just a tough night with a lot of goals that added up and and 4-1 just makes it especially the way the games being played. Sometimes 4-1 nowadays in the national hockey, it gets crazy and you can come back. But tonight had none of that feel at all. And now as a goal, you’re just hoping as a team to get out of it 4-1. But Ottawa’s too good. You take a couple other penalties that are in the neutral zone that are stick tripping calls. nothing really hard and and that’s what makes um it even more frustrating here at the end with Stutzel getting a stick on it and 51 and 61 71 happens real quick. You’re a goalie. Like I know how important it is for players. I never had a lot of points actually any points but when you did get one it’s better than seeing zeros across the board. That’s why it’s so important at the start of the season for your big guns to get those those cookies early. get some points so at least you’re there’s no zeros and you’re not squeezing the stick and you feel like you’re you’re contributing as a goalie on a night like tonight stats are so important. I know he’s on a long contract but what does this do to you mentally like you’re statistically it’s we were going to talk about how great he was. No, that’s it. That’s the like you you’re going to go through and you’re going to be seven on 23 man. Oh, like I just got smoked and my numbers just got smoked. And and we had this last year with Jeremy and and you’re playing catch-up. It’s like when you don’t get points in the first month and a half of the year and you’re trying to get back to a if you’re a point per game guy, now you have to get two in 20 different games. For a goalender that you don’t get enough shots to catch back up, you know, seven goals on 23 shots. Typically, you want to, you know, ideally, you just think the easiest way to think about this is is one goal on 10 shots. So, he needed, you give up seven, you need 70 shots. So, he’s got to go find 47 shots over the next two or three days. If the brooms keep playing like that, get back. He’s going to get back, you know, it’s the breakaways that they, you know, so it is hard for a goalender to to take yourself out of that. You’re once the game’s kind of over at 4 to one, you you’re you want to get through that last 10 minutes without giving extra ones up. And it gets frustrating to give those last three up on the last three or four shots of the

The Boston Bruins fall 7-2 in the loss against the Ottawa Senators. Sophia, Razor, and PJ Stock discuss the team’s loss on Overtime Live.