The NHL commerce deadline arrives on Friday and it’s clear the Bruins want some assist.
But their efficiency on Long Island on Saturday night time will need to have GM Don Sweeney questioning simply how a lot of it this workforce deserves.
The B’s had been completely outplayed by the New York Islanders at UBS Arena and had been rightly routed, 5-1, to start March very like they began February – with out a pulse. Once once more, the B’s prime forwards – David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand, Jake DeBrusk and Charlie Coyle – gave the workforce little in the way in which of offensive manufacturing and even prolonged offensive zone time.
To make issues worse, the B’s misplaced Pavel Zacha to a decrease physique damage late within the first interval and he didn’t return. There was no quick prognosis obtainable.
The B‘s are clearly missing workhorse defenseman Hampus Lindholm (lower body injury), and not having Matt Grzelcyk (undisclosed injury) on Saturday didn’t assist. But what ailed the B’s on Saturday was about greater than lacking a few gamers.
It was a non-competitive first interval from the Bruins perspective, as Kyle Palmieri notched a pure hat trick within the first 12:19 for a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes. It may have been worse.
The first aim got here at 3:32 when the veteran received previous Mason Lohrei and sniped quite a bit shot previous Linus Ullmark.
Then, after James van Riemsdyk took a foul and apparent holding penalty close to the Islander blue line, Palmieri scored off a rebound at 5:27, simply 16 seconds after van Riemsdyk took a seat within the field.
Finally, after coach Jim Montgomery juggled his traces and put Jesper Boqvist up on the left wing with Zacha and Pastrnak, the B’s seemed completely misplaced in their very own zone. Boqvist, maybe believing he had assist down low, let Ryan Pulock stroll proper down the appropriate wing and get off shot that produced a giant rebound off Ullmark’s left pad. With Lohrei tying up Anders Lee, Palmieri was left alone to pop residence that rebound.
Had Ullmark not give you a few huge saves within the first, it might have been lights out. Kyle MacLean had a clear break-in after Derek Forbort, again within the lineup due to the Grzelcyk damage, dedicated an egregious turnover. And when the B’s, outshot 15-8 within the first, got an opportunity to get again within the sport with a late energy play, the Islanders had been those who had the higher scoring possibilities.
But it took the Islanders simply 46 seconds into the second interval to increase the lead. After Marchand turned down a chief scoring probability within the slot to make a go to Coyle that by no means related, the Islanders got here proper again down the ice and scored when Ullmark and Charlie McAvoy received twisted up within the prime of the crease. After McAvoy blocked a shot, Lee had an empty internet for a simple aim.
The ugliness was not over. After Brandon Carlo couldn’t deal with a puck behind the online and chased it up the boards, Lohrei was left to alone to cowl two males in good scoring areas. Bo Horvat recovered the puck and located the open man, Brock Nelson, and he made it 5-0 at 10:24.
The B’s by no means had a lot push-back, although they did get a aim again again when Marc McLaughlin, known as up for the primary time this yr resulting from an damage to Justin Brazeau, scored on a one-timer off a McAvoy go at 14:30.
Source: www.bostonherald.com