Bruins Helpless Against Habs In Tenth Straight Loss

The Boston Bruins were helpless on Thursday night as they lost their 10th straight game.

Not even a reunion with their old arch-rival was enough to inspire a broken Bruins team as they fell 4-1 to the Montreal Canadiens at Bell Center.

“The other teams are just hungrier than us,” Nikita Zadorov said to reporters in Montreal. “They just want to win more, and that’s the bottom line. We’re not hard on the puck, and we’re too easy to play against.”

That wasn’t the case as the game began, as a back-and-forth opening frame sent the two teams into the second period tied without a score.

That changed when Christina Dvorak put Montreal on the board 40 seconds into the middle frame. From then on, it was all Canadiens and all downhill for the Bruins.

The Habs outshot the Bruins 17-2 in the second period. It wasn’t until there was 6:14 left until the intermission that the Bruins landed a shot on Montreal goalie Samuel Montembeault.

“It’s about managing the game properly and understanding that when they do grab momentum, we have to be able to grab it back as quickly as we can,” Bruins interim coach Joe Sacco said. ” That’s something that we have to work on.”

At least at that point, the Bruins were only down by one, or at least they were before Cole Caufield capitalized on an odd-man rush to make it 2-0 Canadiens.

Brendan Gallagher added another tally to Montreal’s total three minutes into the third period as he was left all alone without a single Bruins defender near him to snap a shot past Jeremy Swayman from the low slot.

Swayman made 27 saves on 30 shots. The best of which came while under duress early in the second period as Swayman dove back across his crease from a seated position to stone Alexander Carrier’s try from below the right face-off circle with his glove.

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That was a little bit of desperation. I wish it was a little prettier than that,” said Swayman. “I want to do my job of making sure I do whatever I can to keep the puck out of the net. It was just a lucky save.”

Elias Lindholm scored his 14th goal of the season at 13:19 of the third period to preserve at least some semblance of Boston’s dignity, only for it to be wiped out when Nick Suzuki scored an empty-net goal for the Habs.

“This is our job,” Lindholm said. “We’re getting paid a lot of money to do this. There are people out there that are struggling, and we get paid millions to play hockey. It shouldn’t be hard to find some sort of motivation.”

Free-falling amid their longest winless streak in 15 years, the Bruins look utterly helpless.

Helpless and hopeless.

The Bruins will host the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night at TD Garden.

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