{"id":488854,"date":"2026-03-06T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/488854\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:12:11","slug":"road-struggles-continue-breaking-apart-the-bruins-loss-to-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/488854\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Struggles Continue: Breaking Apart the Bruins\u2019 Loss to Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe just didn\u2019t play good,\u201d Marco Sturm said<\/a> after the Bruins\u2019 loss Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Boston Bruins (34-22-5) fell 6-3 to the Nashville Predators (28-26-8)<\/a> at Bridgestone Arena. The Predators scored four in the second period, and two third-period goals were not enough for the Bruins to climb back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The loss dropped the Bruins to 11-14-4 (.448) on the road this season. Their last road win came in Chicago on January 17<\/a> (0-3-3 since).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we kind of played into their strengths a little bit, and they took advantage of it,\u201d Morgan Geekie said<\/a> after the game. \u201cIt seems to be the way things go on the road, and you know, it\u2019s tough to see points slip away like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins never took a lead on Thursday night. Nic Hague opened the scoring<\/a>, and four second-period goals helped the Predators add to their lead, including a shorthanded goal<\/a> and a power play goal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Morgan Geekie<\/a> cut the deficit to 2-1 with his 12th power play goal<\/a> of the season. The goal also marked a career-high 34 goals for Geekie, surpassing his total from last season (33).\u00a0<\/p>\n

For a few minutes, it brought the Bruins some momentum. It also reignited the spark that the B\u2019s power play displayed before the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

\u201cA little bit, yeah,\u201d Geekie said about his goal providing a jump. \u201cOur power play struggled [in the] last couple of games, and it was nice to see one go in.\u201d<\/p>\n

It did not last long, though, as the Predators capitalized seven minutes later to make it 3-1. By the end of the second period, it was 5-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Charlie McAvoy<\/a> and Viktor Arvidsson<\/a> added third<\/a>\u2013period<\/a> goals, but it was too little, too late for the Bruins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the game, Charlie McAvoy elaborated on what went wrong for the Bruins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played sort of wide-open tonight, and that\u2019s not really our game,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cWe like to put pucks behind. We got to wear teams out. We want to be physical. Like, we know our game, and we just didn\u2019t do that tonight, it felt like at all. It felt like we didn\u2019t get any forecheck time in the second. Like, we just didn\u2019t establish anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t do enough with our opportunities. That\u2019s on the power play, that\u2019s on anything. We gave up a lot of penalties, too. We gave up some power play opportunities and a goal. We just didn\u2019t play a good enough game, every aspect of it, it just wasn\u2019t good tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

McAvoy also took a puck to the face in the first period. He said it was on the other side of his face, not the spot previously injured, and added that he believes he will be alright.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, the NHL trade deadline is looming. It is Friday at 3:00 PM. Marco Sturm was quick to say it was not a distraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the Predators<\/a> traded<\/a> four<\/a> players<\/a> in the three days leading up to the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always tough when the opponent is missing or scratching guys,\u201d Marco Sturm said. \u201cSeen it a lot of times before. It\u2019s not like we took it lightly, but they just, you know, the guys who came in, they worked extremely hard, and they worked more than us. And that was the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Bruins, the turnaround is quick, and the message is clear. The Columbus Blue Jackets are only one point behind the Bruins for the second wild card spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery game we play the rest of the way is the most important game of the year,\u201d Charlie McAvoy said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if we have that urgency yet, and we are going to play teams that have that urgency. We\u2019re going to play two of them in the next two games, like, this team tonight is trying to make the playoffs. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s something that we\u2019ve talked about, and maybe that\u2019s shame on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery game the rest of the way is the most important.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins will return to the ice on Saturday, after the deadline, for a 12:30 PM game against the Washington Capitals (31-25-7). Then they will travel to Pittsburgh for their third and final game against the Penguins<\/a> (31-17-13) on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe just didn\u2019t play good,\u201d Marco Sturm said after the Bruins\u2019 loss Thursday night. The Boston Bruins (34-22-5)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,2154,58,5,4261,231,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-488854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-charlie-mcavoy","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-morgan-geekie","16":"tag-nashville-predators","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116181699392686755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488854","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=488854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}