BSJ Game Report: Jets 4, Bruins 3 - B’s close out road trip with 3rd straight loss taken at BSJ Headquarters (Bruins)

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BSJ Game Report: Jets 4, Bruins 3 - B’s close out road trip with 3rd straight loss

By Conor Ryan

Mar 15, 2019 • 1:01 am

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Everything you need to know from the Bruins’ 4-3 loss against the Jets  in quickie form, with BSJ insight and analysis…

Box Score

HEADLINES

Another slow start: Same old song and dance for this Bruins club as of late, as Boston found itself in a 2-0 hole just 11:24 into regulation following goals from Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele. Had it not been for Charlie McAvoy’s bar-down snipe with 2:37 remaining in the stanza, Boston would have been outscored 8-1 in the first period over its last six games. Once again, the Bruins showed plenty of resolve in this one, knotting things up at 2-2 in the second period before once again making it a one-goal game in the closing minutes of regulation off of Charlie Coyle’s first goal as a Bruin. But the script remained the same — too little, too late for the Bruins, who have now lost three straight games in regulation.

Injuries have B’s stuck in the mud: Poor puck play has continued to haunt this team during this recent losing skid, but it’s also tough to ignore the decimated roster that Bruce Cassidy has had to roll out on a regular basis. The list of injured skaters is pretty impressive at this point —  Kevan Miller (upper body), Marcus Johansson (lung contusion), David Pastrnak (thumb), Matt Grzelcyk (upper body), Jake DeBrusk (foot) and Torey Krug (upper body).

Losing your top blue-line piece on the power play, your third D pairing and three top-six options is going to add up — and Boston has really felt the effects over the last week. Even with contributions on Thursday from players like Joakim Nordstrom and Coyle, it’s evident that opposing teams are exploiting the magnified flaws on this B’s club on a regular basis as of late — whether that be secondary scoring issues or some lax D coverage.

THREE UP

Charlie McAvoy: Impressive snipe from McAvoy in the closing minutes of the first period. After opening the 2018-19 campaign with just one goal over his first 27 games played, McAvoy has now lit the lamp five times and added 12 points over the following 17 matchups.




Joakim Nordstrom:
Nordstrom picked a good time to snap a 25-game goalless stretch — with his last tally coming all the way back on Dec. 17. Slotted down in the lineup after switching spots with
Chris Wagner
midway through the first period, Nordstrom fared well with
Noel Acciari
and
Sean Kuraly
, nearly setting up Kuraly for a tap-in goal in the third after stealing a puck away from
Jacob Trouba.




Charlie Coyle: 
David Krejci's 


THREE DOWN


Acciari Line:
While Boston’s fourth line (with Nordstrom) combined for a goal in the second period, Boston’s regular configuration of Kuraly-Acciari-Wagner had a first period to forget — with Acciari heading to the box at 10:40 for a hold against Trouba. The Jets scored 44 seconds later, with both Acciari and Kuraly earning less than three minutes of ice time for the remainder of the first period.


Zdeno Chara:
Not a great day from Chara, who was out on the ice for three of Winnipeg’s goals on Thursday. The first two 5v5 goals relinquished by Boston were particularly ugly, with Chara way out of position during
Blake Wheeler’s
rebound tally just 1:08 into the contest — while Trouba skated through the B’s captain en route to his goal at 7:38 in the third period.




Danton Heinen:
A brutal turnover from Heinen in the closing minutes of the third period led directly to Nikolaj Ehlers' game-winning strike at 13:02. Can't have a fumble like that right in the D zone. 




PLAY OF THE GAME




PARTING THOUGHT


Mark Scheifele
might have had the last laugh with a power-play goal just seconds later, but
Zdeno Chara
did his best to propel the Jets forward’s stick into the stratosphere during the first period.




LOOKING AHEAD


After wrapping up their three-game road trip, the B’s will head back home for just a single game — with the club set to host the Blue Jackets on Saturday night. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. Boston will be looking to even the score after Columbus bested the club, 7-4, back on Tuesday.

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