In the quick aftermath of the Bruins 4-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday, it was clear that Bruce Cassidy didn’t like loads of issues he’d simply seen from his crew. An evening’s sleep didn’t alter that a lot.
During a reasonably intense Garden follow for a late season session on a day between video games, Cassidy sprinkled just a few F-bombs in his pointed on-ice criticisms throughout the roughly 45-minute follow as he tries to proper his injury-plagued crew that has now misplaced three of 4 video games.
And whereas Cassidy wasn’t dumping Tuesday’s loss and the current slide on Trent Frederic, it doesn’t seem he’s going to let the winger’s pricey, undisciplined penalty within the second interval slide. In Wednesday’s follow, Tomas Nosek changed Frederic on the third line with Charlie Coyle and Craig Smith.
With the post-season looming, Cassidy is utilizing Frederic’s mistake as a teachable second.
“We have goals coming forward here. First one is to get in the playoffs, punch our ticket. We’re very close to that. We’re not there yet. Then we know the brand of hockey to expect once you get in, and you just have to have a certain amount of discipline to play, not take yourself out of the game individually or as a team. And that’s where Freddy has to learn,” mentioned Cassidy. “He hasn’t been through it a lot. This is probably a good learning curve for him to keep your emotions in check and channel them properly. He didn’t. It cost us. And hopefully he’s a better player for it going forward. That’s it. That’s the best you can hope. Because he has been a good player for us on that line. That line has not been as good recently. I’ll put that on all three of them. They’re getting farther and farther away from the net, as opposed to towards the net, where they’re big, heavy bodies and they can do some damage. So we’re trying to correct that.”
On the penalty in query, Frederic acquired into some post-whistle pushing and shoving with Vladimir Tarasenko earlier than Colton Parayko came visiting to help the Blues’ star. In the scrum, Frederic appeared to pop off Parayko’s helmet, which is an automated penalty, nevertheless it was introduced as a roughing penalty taken towards Tarasenko. Frederic mentioned that, within the midst of the scrum, he was simply making an attempt to offer again was he was getting and didn’t deliberately attempt to knock the helmet off.
But whereas Frederic wasn’t precisely certain what put it over the sting to offer him the two-minute minor, however he took duty for choosing the mistaken time to be edgy within the first place.
“What you can learn from it is we had momentum going, 2-1 us, we were probably dominating for about 15 minutes. So we didn’t real need anything there. It just wasn’t necessary. There was no benefit,” mentioned Frederic on Wednesday. “And obviously if you do something like, you have to try to make sure you take somebody else with you. It wasn’t my best moment as a Bruin. But I can learn from it and just be better, be smarter. I try to pride myself on not taking dumb penalties. I have maybe a couple this year, maybe a couple of hooks in the offensive zone. But not too much of that stuff. It was just bad timing, and just bad on my part. You just go to bed at night and try to be better the next day.”
One unhealthy penalty doesn’t inform the entire story of what’s been ailing this crew. Injuries, in fact, have been brutal. They began Tuesday’s sport with out Matt Grzelcyk, David Pastrnak and Hampus Lindholm after which misplaced Brandon Carlo halfway by means of the primary interval.
But regardless of who’s within the lineup, Cassidy mentioned the B’s must handle pucks a lot better than they’ve been. The Blues’ third and fourth targets had been outcomes of misplaced pucks close to the offensive blue line by Brad Marchand and Charlie Coyle, respectively. And when battles are misplaced, they should do a greater job at recovering and defending than they’ve been.
“Some bad habits are creeping in. They’re hard to break sometimes,” mentioned Cassidy. “There’s definitely no must panic as a result of we haven’t been on the run we had been in March and February. But we’ve got to deal with it and get again to enjoying good hockey. Let’s hope that begins (Thursday). If not, then we’ll deal with Saturday.
“Now losing guys out of your lineup limits some of your adjustments you can make. When you’re missing puck-movers like Grizz and Lindholm, that limits some of your power-play options, some of your breakout ability, so you’re simplifying things and it can show up. Take any high end guys out of the lineup and eventually there will be some drop-off. I just thought our game was fine in the second period, even with Carlo gone. We were in good position. We were up 2-1, playing well, putting some pressure on them. And we got away from it. Pasta wasn’t in there, neither was Lindholm. So you can certainly win your share of games doing that. And it’s opportunities for other guys. We didn’t take advantage of it. Yes, areas of your game are going to suffer but your whole game shouldn’t suffer because two or three guys are out.”.
No prognosis on Carlo but
Carlo didn’t follow on Wednesday and Cassidy didn’t need to enterprise any form of guess as to the size he’s out of the lineup till he’s heard from crew medical doctors.
“He’s got to get further evaluation before I can tell you he’s week to week or day to day or in or out,” mentioned Cassidy.
What precisely is mistaken with Carlo shouldn’t be clear, however he has a historical past of concussions and he seemed to be shaken up on a borderline Lars Eller hit in Washington on Sunday.
Neither Lindholm (knee) or Pastrnak (core) practiced on Wednesday and they’ll miss Thursday’s sport towards Ottawa. Cassidy didn’t rule them out past that but.
The excellent news on the harm entrance is that Grzelcyk, who appeared to have suffered a re-occurrence of shoulder points which have been dogging him this season when he left Sunday’s sport in Washington within the first interval, participated absolutely in follow and Cassidy was “cautiously optimistic” he’d have the ability to play towards Ottawa.
Froden up
Jesper Froden was recalled and he skated on a line with Taylor Hall and Erik Haula whereas Marc McLaughlin dropped all the way down to heart a fourth line between Nick Foligno and Curtis Lazar.
Patrice Bergeron (upkeep) didn’t follow. He’s anticipated to play on Thursday.
Beecher joins Providence
Johnny Beecher, the B’s 2019 first spherical draft decide (thirtieth total), has left Michigan after his junior season and signed an beginner tryout contract with the Providence Bruins whereas he and the B’s finalize his entry degree contract with the B’s, mentioned GM Don Sweeney in a press release.
The 6-foot-3, 209-pound Beecher has pace to go together with that dimension however, on a talent-laden Wolverine crew, he dd not have loads of manufacturing. In 81 collegiate video games, he had 19 targets and 20 assists. A great defensive participant, will probably be fascinating to see what sort of professional participant he turns into.
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