{"id":369441,"date":"2025-12-22T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/369441\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:57:10","slug":"nikita-zadorov-bruins-game-vs-canadiens-is-a-must-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/369441\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikita Zadorov: Bruins game vs. Canadiens is a must-win"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON \u2014 The Bruins<\/a> have one more game on Tuesday against the Montreal Canadiens before the NHL\u2019s holiday break. <\/p>\n

And even though it\u2019s December, it\u2019s looked at as a must-win game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to win that game,\u201d Nikita Zadorov said after Sunday\u2019s loss to the Ottawa Senators<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re out of a playoff spot. That\u2019s not where we want to be. It\u2019s really tight in the standings but we know where we\u2019re at. Nowhere near where we want to be as well, so we\u2019ve got to show up against a big rivalry game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins\u2019 loss to Ottawa<\/a> marked the first time Boston lost three straight games at home this season. It was a game where more went wrong than right between Joonas Korpisalo getting pulled in the second period, defensive breakdowns and being unable to complete scoring chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had a better flow of the game. They had two breakaways our power play,\u201d coach Marco Sturm said. \u201cThey were just mentally sharper than us (Sunday).\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins don\u2019t have much time to right their wrongs, but Sturm knows it\u2019s important to go into the NHL holiday break on a high note.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just have to find a way before the break,\u201d he said before later adding, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to find a way to get out of it right away and be more consistent,\u201d he said. \u201cYou want to be consistent with that kind of schedule and traveling, all that kind of stuff. So you will make some mental mistakes. I know that. … But I\u2019ve seen it around the league, so that\u2019s just not us.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 The Bruins have one more game on Tuesday against the Montreal Canadiens before the NHL\u2019s holiday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[43565,12911,154,95,5132,530,5,5490,4,15499,12913],"class_list":{"0":"post-369441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-2026-ice-hockey","9":"tag-bestof","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-bruins","12":"tag-bostonbruins","13":"tag-bruins","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-match-sport","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-professional-sport","18":"tag-topix"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115763101283711857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}