The Bruins are in a rut and have won just one game in their last six. They’ve suffered sloppy losses through their first 11 games, including their worst of the season Thursday night when Boston fell 8-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes.
The power play went 1-for-5, the penalty kill allowed three goals on five chances, Jeremy Swayman was pulled midway through the second period, the Bruins put just 15 shots on net and just looked uninspired and sloppy once again. They were outmatched, outsmarted and out-disciplined.
Coach Jim Montgomery overhauled his forward lines once again in hopes to create an offensive spark, but his team fell flat. While the forward group has been shuffled around quite a bit early on, David Pastrnak isn’t blaming that for the team’s shortcomings.
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“Monty’s just trying to get us going,” Pastrnak told reporters in Raleigh after the game. “The mixing lines, it happens. Personally, I have no problem with it. I can read off anybody. Right now it’s not about the combinations. We are not good enough as a team, and that’s where it starts.”
Nothing has seemed to work when it comes to the lines. Pastrnak and Elias Lindholm were split up after the duo struggled to find chemistry early on. But any combination Montgomery puts on the ice comes up empty-handed.
“We’re gonna get out of it together. It’s the only way,” Pastrnak said. “Tighten up as a group together and find a way to win games against the good teams. Sometimes you get to know each other, know what to expect. We just need to get on a winning streak and compete. Our compete level needs to be way higher.”
