Bruins have shown fight despite losing streak, but need to ‘figure out how to play full 60′

BOSTON — The Bruins have lost five straight games and are 3-5-0 to begin the 2025-26 season.

Boston has seldom looked out of games. The team has fought from behind and stayed in it most nights, but it hasn’t gone the way of the Bruins.

Such was the case Tuesday when Boston lost 4-3 to the Florida Panthers.

“It can only be encouraging for so long,” Morgan Geekie said after the game. “We toss a few away on the road trip. We’re undisciplined, and our power play isn’t working. Then (Tuesday night), our penalty kill does an awesome job, our power play gets one in the third period and we battle back. It just doesnt go our way at the end.

“At some point something’s gotta give and we just have to figure out how to play a full 60.”

Tuesday’s loss marked the fourth one-goal loss of the season for the Boston.

“Most of the nights, it’s our own doing,” David Pastrnak said. “That’s something we have to fix. We can’t be playing from behind or making those mistakes every night.”

Florida scored quickly in the first and second periods to take a 2-0 lead. The Bruins tied it 2-2 in the third before knotting the game 3-3 with 1:31 to go after they pulled Jeremy Swayman for the extra skater.

But just as quickly as they tied it did the Panthers reclaim the lead on a strange play where the puck ended up bouncing off Andrew Peeke and into Boston’s net.

Coach Marco Sturm likes the fight of the Bruins and noted they don’t quit. But he wants to see them start on time in order to avoid playing from behind.

And he wants the players to “get on the bus” of playing a full 60 minutes.

“Right now, there’s still a few missing,” he said. “So that’s my job, and that’s my job moving forward, to get everyone on board.”