The Boston Bruins have a road problem that’s going to have to improve down the stretch if they hope to be a playoff team.
The Black and Gold dropped their fifth road game in a row – if one counts the outdoor Stadium Series game in Tampa as a road tilt – with a 3-1 loss to the Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday afternoon, and some of the happenings in defeat had the familiar ring of other losses on the road this season.
The loss dropped the B’s to 11-13-4 on the road this season, a mark that will need to be improved as the Bruins play a slew of road games at the very end of the season when a wild card spot is likely to be clinched.
Most notably, the Bruins' power play couldn’t come through with a 0-for-3 performance in the game, and a few early penalties took the Bruins a bit out of the flow amidst an admittedly masterful performance in net from old friend Daniel Vladar. Vladar finished with 26 saves in a game where the Bruins outshot the Flyers by a 27-17 margin but fell behind 2-0 in the third period before giving up an empty net goal in the final minutes of the game.
It wasn’t a bad effort from the Bruins by any means, but they were just a little bit short against a Flyers team that’s on the outside of the playoff structure in the East. In other words, that’s a game that a playoff-caliber team truly