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Bruins Expecting Response Against Lightning After Lackluster Loss<\/a> originally appeared on NESN<\/a>. Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Boston Bruins<\/a> are looking forward to getting the bad taste out of their mouth from the loss to the Florida Panthers on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Boston suffered a 2-1 road loss to Florida in a game the Bruins struggled from the get-go and didn\u2019t have much energy. It was a frustrating loss for the team, and now head coach Marco Sturm is expecting the team<\/a> to come out strong on Saturday against the Lightning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think overall, every time you’re a little bit harder on them, I feel like they respond better,\u201d Sturm said after practice on Friday. \u201c(Thursday) again, (the Panthers) have a lot of guys out and we’ve seen that picture before. I\u2019ve seen it before.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just took it a little bit too lightly, I thought. Maybe I’m wrong, but that just can’t happen, especially this time of year, so that’s why it was so frustrating. We didn’t play our game for 40 minutes, and that cost us the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Although the Bruins are firmly in a playoff spot, Sturm felt like the team needed to play better, and he firmly expects the team to come out strong against Tampa Bay, which could be a potential playoff preview.<\/p>\n

Boston enters play on Saturday with a record of 43-25-8 and is six points up on a playoff spot with just six games left in the season.<\/p>\n

More NHL:\u00a0This Saturday Bruins-Lightning Game Could Mean a Lot For Boston\u2019s Playoff Hopes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruins Expecting Response Against Lightning After Lackluster Loss originally appeared on NESN. Add NESN as a Preferred Source…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,57,5,189,6164,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-540555","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-florida-panthers","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-lightning","15":"tag-marco-sturm","16":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116347439860547636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540555","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=540555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}