{"id":432769,"date":"2025-11-24T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/432769\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:11:12","slug":"david-pastrnak-reveals-key-issue-bruins-must-overcome-after-latest-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/432769\/","title":{"rendered":"David Pastrnak Reveals Key Issue Bruins Must Overcome After Latest Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/11\/marco-sturm-explains-why-bruins-loss-to-sharks-was-unfortunate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> could not follow the lead of the New England Patriots and Boston Celtics on Sunday afternoon. After both of those teams earned wins, the B\u2019s came up short against the San Jose Sharks, and if you ask <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/11\/david-pastrnak-expects-bruins-all-czech-line-to-be-much-better\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Pastrnak<\/a>, there\u2019s one big issue that keeps popping up for this team.<\/p>\n<p>With the final score settling in at 3-1, Boston spent pretty much the entire game playing from behind. A third-period goal from Morgan Geekie gave the Bruins a shot late in the game, but it ended up going to waste.<\/p>\n<p>While the lack of offensive production alongside Geekie has been a popular talking point as of late, the B\u2019s also had more penalty minutes than their opponent yet again in this one. Pastrnak believes that\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NESN\/status\/1992808573848469867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">issue that needs to be fixed<\/a>, not just so the team can get off the penalty kill, but also because it\u2019s disrupting their tempo during five-on-five play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s every game, we\u2019re taking almost double as many penalties as we have power plays,\u201d Pastrnak said after the game. \u201cIt\u2019s tough. It\u2019s too much relying on the penalty kill. The tempo is not there. We just gotta stay out of the box and be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not exactly bold to suggest that the Bruins need to avoid taking penalties, as that\u2019s true of every team in the NHL. Penalties are bound to happen in hockey, but the frequency with which guys are being sent to the box needs to be curbed, or else the losses could begin piling up quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Boston is still in a good spot with a 13-11-0 record, and a return to the East Coast should do them well after a stint out west. The Bruins will be back in action on Wednesday night when they finish off their road trip with a meeting against the New York Islanders.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins could not follow the lead of the New England Patriots and Boston Celtics on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,63946,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-432769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-david-pastrnak","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115606499757579725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}