In the end, the Boston Bruins were simply never able to get to their game on home ice in the Stanley Cup playoffs and it cost them dearly.
The B’s played three quality games on the road in Buffalo and won two of them after blowing a third period lead in Game 1, but they were outscored 12-3 in the three games played at TD Garden before finally bowing out in Game 6, by a 4-1 score, at TD Garden on Friday night.
The Bruins had a limp opening 20 minutes where they fell behind by a 2-0 score and were outshot by a 12-6 margin and kept to their home playoff script of poor starts followed by chasing the game. It was diametrically opposite of the NHL-best 29-11-1 record that the Bruins posted at TD Garden during the regular season and played into a brutally bad 3-11 record in their last 14 home postseason games over the last four playoffs.Read More
