Post-Game Talk: GAME 31 - Sleeping in Seattle - Kraken 5 BRUINS 1

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SEATTLE — The long-and-winding road delivered the Bruins to another dead end Thursday night at Climate Pledge Arena.

Paced by a pair of Oliver Bjorkstrand goals, and the steady work of Philipp Grubauer (33 saves) in net, the Kraken dismissed the Bruins, 5-1, leaving the Black-Gold 0-for-2 on their five-game road trip.
That’s 0-for-2 with only two goals scored.

The Bruins will be in Vancouver Saturday night for stop No. 3 on their five-game Western swing.
The Kraken took an early 2-0 lead, Bjorkstrand connecting on a power-play goal only 24 seconds into play, followed by Jaden Schwartz at even strength.


With only 5:14 off the clock, the Bruins were faced with a two-goal uphill climb that they couldn’t erase.
After scoring only once in the road trip opener Tuesday night (an 8-1 shellacking in Winnipeg) the Bruins scored the lone goal in the second period when Brad Marchand scored on a penalty shot at the 10:28 mark.

Marchand was awarded the free chance when Brandon Montour, the one-time UMass-Amherst backliner, was charged with covering the puck in the crease as Marchand attempted to jam the puck over the goal line at the left post.

On his freebie, Marchand barreled in alone, faked a forehand shot in the low slot, and then slid a sleight-of-hand backhander through goalie Grubaeur’s five-hole. It was Marchand’s seventh career penalty-shot goal, tying him with Pavel Bure, the Russian Rocket, for the league’s all-time lead. The L’il Ball o’Hate previously was tied at No. 2 with Mario Lemieux.

The Kraken, currently out of the playoff mix in the West, put it out of reach in the third on goals by Vince Dunn and Bjorkstrand’s second of the night, boosting the lead to 4-1. Jared McCann closed out the scoring with an empty-netter with 1:54 to go.

Joonas Korpisalo made 16 saves on 20 shots in the Bruins' net.
The Bruins lost the services of Elias Lindholm midway through the second period. The underperforming center (31 games: 3-10–13) who signed a $54.25 million deal in July as an unrestricted free agent, sustained an upper-body injury.

If Lindholm can’t suit up Saturday night against the Canucks, the Bruins on Friday might consider calling up Matty Poitras from AHL Providence. Assigned to there a month ago, Poitras has wielded a hot stick the last two weeks, and the Bruins now are desperate for offensive pop.

The Bruins, who began the trip after winning a season-high four straight games, now stand 7-4-0 since Joe Sacco took over as interim coach upon the dismissal of Jim Montgomery.

The loss left the Bruins with a 6-7-1 record on the road this season.

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[BruinDust]

Is there any doubt at this point that the Bruins are the worst offensive team in the NHL?

If not for two blowouts against Cayden Primeau and the Habs (a team that coughed up a 9 spot to the Penguins last night, including SIX in the 3rd period) the Bruins would be dead last in goals scored.

They are have been dead last in PP% for well over a month now.

They can't stay out of the box. Can they stop putting their opponent on the PP in the first two minutes. Tuesday it was Frederic with the early stupid penalty, last night it was Pasta with a lazy high-sticking call.

Meanwhile, faster and deeper offensive teams pick this group apart.

Tons of pressure on the goalies yet many here are still pointing the finger at Swayman as why this season is going off the rails.

The ONLY redeeming quality of this years team is they have two good goaltenders.

This year's team is simply brutal. Don't let the standings fool you. If Sweeney had any guts he'd admit to ownership him and Neely screwed up and get ready to sell their UFAs at the deadline.

 

[the negotiator]

Welp:
The dead cat bounce has ended
Water seeks its own level
You are what your record says you are

Whichever you chose the outcome is the same- all that off-season optimism has evaporated as just every player is playing below ( or in some cases way below) expectations. I can't remember a team this bad - and so uninteresting- since the Dave Lewis year.

I know it doesn't align with the organization's primary goal of making the play-offs but it sure feels like it has become time to trade some pieces while they still have some value. Coyle, Carlo, Geekie and Frederick - two of whom I like- are players that could begin the process for a needed change.

Tough times- it is really hard to objectively see how the current line-up can change this season's direction.

 

[ON3M4N]

If you took Kopri's SV% last night and put it against the volume of shots Swayman faced in WPG, Korpi would have given up 7 goals. It odds that for those who were so focused on goaltending last game, they don't seem to care this game.

 

[LouJersey]

If you took Kopri's SV% last night and put it against the volume of shots Swayman faced in WPG, Korpi would have given up 7 goals. It odds that for those who were so focused on goaltending last game, they don't seem to care this game.

he was equally as awful, which is very disappointing. I wanted him to run a few games in a row to motivate #1 some more.

You have to think they have a good run in them, unless this past run was just a dead cat bounce with the new coach. I need to reevaluate myself because I thought this team was loaded, although I had Poitras and Lysell on the finished product, but they wouldn't have changed much.

 

[Ned Bouhalassa]

So many with little or no finish. I don’t get it.

 

[bruinsfan1970]

I wonder if opposing teams say all we need to do is get 2 goals and it basically sums up a win since the Bruins have a hard time scoring 2 goals a game. After last nights lame game I will no longer be watching the standings. Looks like a lost season.

 

[nORRis8]

Boston was well and truly due this type of season. Sucks that's it's finally here, but best to accept it ....

Thing is I'm just as much a NFL fan as I'm a hockey fan.

However the Patriots are horrible and I've now realized how fickle I am.
Last 4 years I've watched less and less.Irs to the point I haven't watched one complete game this season.

Pat's being horrible, sketchy officiating and having to hear of Kelce and his nauseating idiot pop star girlfriend of which theres cameras shoved directly up her ass during games telling us how many Grammys she's won ....I've lost interest.

I've been a Bruins fan since 1970. I'm still watching the majority of Bruin games....for now.
The downward spiral has only just begun.
Let's see where we land.

 

[bobber]

Looking at these losses do the Wise Owls looking down from their box above still point fingers at coaching? Monty was the last scape goat. Guess Sacco is next. Easy to fire coaches.

 

[Gee Wally]

Glad I missed it.

 

[ae530]

To properly start a rebuild Both Sweeney and Neely have to be fired. They have had their chances and the team as now constructed has to be torn down to the foundation and a new gm from outside the organization to be the guy to rebuild

 

[NDiesel]

If you took Kopri's SV% last night and put it against the volume of shots Swayman faced in WPG, Korpi would have given up 7 goals. It odds that for those who were so focused on goaltending last game, they don't seem to care this game.

No one cares because who the hell even stayed up to watch this crap

 

[Gee Wally]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/13/sports/bruins-kraken-game-score-marchand/

Seattle — Although winter officially begins a week from Saturday (ladies and gentlemen, start your snowblowers), the Bruins already have their scoring hands burrowed deep into Old Man Winter’s frozen tundra.

Again unable to establish meaningful, bona fide presence at the front end of the ice, the Black-and-Gold suffered a 5-1 loss to the Kraken Thursday night at Climate Pledge Arena, and there is little at the moment to suggest there soon will be a climate change in the expanding gray cloud of Boston’s offensive attack.

The loss, in which their lone goal was delivered on a penalty shot by Brad Marchand, left the Bruins 0-for-2 on their five-game trip that continues with a visit Friday to Vancouver. They were outscored in the third period here, 3-0, only 48 hours after surrendering five goals in the third period amid a season-worst 8-1 beatdown at the hands of the Jets.

The Bruins were able to cobble together a 34-21 shot advantage against the Kraken, and, yes, lost by four rather than the seven in Winnipeg. But none of that, noted Marchand, captain of a listing ship, offered any solace for a team that now has a .532 points percentage — ninth place in the East.

“Shots don’t mean anything if they’re not going in the net,” said Marchand, who put up three of those 34 shots. “If you give up five goals, I guess that it’s a positive you can look at — to say we got a lot of shots and more opportunities (than Seattle). But they had a lot of Grade A (scoring chances)...and again, we can’t give up that many goals. It definitely doesn’t make me feel better about the game.”

Recently, every night has been an uphill battle, similar to what happened routinely in the 20 games leading to Jim Montgomery’s dismissal as bench boss.

“Our 5-on-5 game started to come around,” said Sacco, whose squad fell into an early 2-0 deficit, in part because of penalty trouble (another growing bugabood). “We generated. We had some opportunities. We had some looks. It just didn’t go in the back of the net for us.”

Making matters worse for the Bruins, perhaps, was the loss of underperforming center Elias Lindholm with an upper-body injury that ended his night midway through the second period.

Lindholm, their $54.25M If I Were A Rich Man, has produced a meager 3-10-13 in 30-plus games, barely enough to fog a mirror. So it’s a stretch to say he would be missed if sidelined now for any length of time. He has been missed all season.

Post-game, Sacco offered no update on Lindholm’s condition.

“I’m going to get an update…I’m just not sure yet,” said Sacco. “I was just told [amid the game] he wouldn’t be available.”

The Bruins on Friday might consider calling up prospect Matthew Poitras from the WannaB’s. Assigned to Providence a month ago, Poitras has been the Spoked-P’s hottest offensive producer over the last 10-12 days, and the parent club is in a position right now to consider any and all hot sticks. Perhaps Poitras can race up I-95 with a 55-gallon drum of antifreeze.

“That’s something we’ll discuss after...we’ll see what’s going on with Lindy first,” said Sacco. “But [Poitras] is playing well down there from the reports I’ve heard.”


After scoring only once in the road trip opener Tuesday night, the Bruins scored the lone goal in the second period when Marchand scored on a penalty shot at the 10:28 mark.

Marchand was awarded the free chance when Brandon Montour, the one-time UMass-Amherst backliner, was charged with covering the puck in the crease as Marchand attempted to jam in a shot at the left post. On his freebie, Marchand barreled in along, faked a forehand shot in the low slot and then slid a sleight-of-hand backhander through goalie Philipp Grubaeur’s five-hole.

It was Marchand’s seventh career penalty-shot goal, tying him with Pavel Bure, the Russian Rocket, for the league’s all-time lead. The L’il Ball o’Hate previously was tied at No. 2 with Mario Lemieux.

“I didn’t know that,” said a somber Marchand. “It’s just a situational stat.”

There are bigger situations right now, with winter closing in, and Bruins goals scarcer than palm trees on the North Pole.

 

[PaulD]

Glad this was a late 11 pm start for me and I missed the whole game. They need to get rid of everyone in management and coaching staff to start with, but we know the Jacobs love Cam and Don. They are not making the playoffs, sorry to be a downer here, but even if they did make it, they will be easy first round fodder for whomever they play. I would start looking at a total sell off by the TDL, guys like Coyle, Frederic, Geekie and Carlo for sure and then the right offers for Swayman, Zacha, the LIndholms, Pasta and even Marchand. Brad deserves to be playing on a contender the final few years of his career and that is not with Boston at the moment, unless Sweeney can pull a few rabbits out his hat for some deals to seriously improve the team.

They'll make the play offs. The league is full of weak , thin rosters.
Bruins are playing the worst hockey they've played in decades ......and sit in a play off spot. Ha!
That's today's watered down 32 team NHL.

 

[DoubleBack]

Water seeking its level. No need to overthink this.

They beat up on garbage after the coaching change.

Now we’re right back where we were a few weeks ago.

It's time and I'm ready for a true rebuild. Yes, I wish it was 2010 and the Bruins were on the cusp of a nice run of years, but they aren't. That's OK, if, and that's a big IF, it's done correctly I won't mind watching a new bunch come together for a future run. Unfortunately I don't have much faith in current management and it will require parting with some of the higher salaries on this team. Recent roster moves and contracts mistakes will slow the process, but I want to see an actual rebuild and not a patch job just to make a playoff round.

Might be the worst captain in Bruins history.

He's certainly not the best, but the hand he has been dealt is not on him.

 

[Blowfish]

Is there any doubt at this point that the Bruins are the worst offensive team in the NHL?

If not for two blowouts against Cayden Primeau and the Habs (a team that coughed up a 9 spot to the Penguins last night, including SIX in the 3rd period) the Bruins would be dead last in goals scored.

They are have been dead last in PP% for well over a month now.

They can't stay out of the box. Can they stop putting their opponent on the PP in the first two minutes. Tuesday it was Frederic with the early stupid penalty, last night it was Pasta with a lazy high-sticking call.

Meanwhile, faster and deeper offensive teams pick this group apart.

Great post. The Big Bad Dumb Slow turtle bruins managed by dumb and dumber superstar Neely.

 

[gerrycheeversmask]

To properly start a rebuild Both Sweeney and Neely have to be fired. They have had their chances and the team as now constructed has to be torn down to the foundation and a new gm from outside the organization to be the guy to rebuild

Charlie Jacobs doesn't have the balls to fire Neely. For anything to change at the top, the Jacobs family need to sell the Bruins. Then the new owners can clean house.

 

[PaulD]

Is there any doubt at this point that the Bruins are the worst offensive team in the NHL?

If not for two blowouts against Cayden Primeau and the Habs (a team that coughed up a 9 spot to the Penguins last night, including SIX in the 3rd period) the Bruins would be dead last in goals scored.

They are have been dead last in PP% for well over a month now.

They can't stay out of the box. Can they stop putting their opponent on the PP in the first two minutes. Tuesday it was Frederic with the early stupid penalty, last night it was Pasta with a lazy high-sticking call.

Meanwhile, faster and deeper offensive teams pick this group apart.

Tons of pressure on the goalies yet many here are still pointing the finger at Swayman as why this season is going off the rails.

The ONLY redeeming quality of this years team is they have two good goaltenders.

This year's team is simply brutal. Don't let the standings fool you. If Sweeney had any guts he'd admit to ownership him and Neely screwed up and get ready to sell their UFAs at the deadline.

Standings aren't fooling anyone. Yes, the Bruins team is brutal......and the NHL is full of brutal teams, tankibg teams, and one in seemingly permanent rebuild. He'll my Habs did a documentary all but branding themselves a rebuild franchise.
Brutal teams make the play off every season. Bruins won't get fat cine April, but I still see them making it.

 

[bruinsfan1968]

I blame Swayman and his toxic girlfriend her SPH toxicity has turned the team into Zombies on skates!. Where's Daryl, Rick and Carol when you need them?!

 

[ON3M4N]

No one cares because who the hell even stayed up to watch this crap

When has people not watching a game stopped them from having an opinion on the game lol

 

[BruinDust]

Standing aren't fooling anyone. Yes, the Bruins team is brutal......and the NHL is full of brutal teams. Not to mention the number of tankers.
Brutal teams make the play off every season.
I'll still bet the Bs make it.
And that's more a reflection on the east.

I would say it's the complete opposite, pretty much every team that makes it is a quality team.

That being said, because of the east this year there is a chance for one bad-to-mediocre club to make it.

 

[BB79]

Is there any doubt at this point that the Bruins are the worst offensive team in the NHL?

I disagree, they're the most offensive team in the league..especially for what they make fans pay to watch this

 

[bobber]

I blame Swayman and his toxic girlfriend her SPH toxicity has turned the team into Zombies on skates!. Where's Daryl, Rick and Carol when you need them?!

Sweeny got swayed by Swayman.

 

[I Hate Philadelphia]

Currently being outscored 13-2 on the roadtrip, is that good?

There is not a single positive thing about this team or this season.

Swayman / E. Lindholm / Zadorov deals have doomed us to mediocrity at best for the next decade.

 

[Patdud]

I picked a great season to have another baby, drop cable, have my toddler fight sleep until 9pm and give up on NESN 360 cause the app sucks.

 

[Blowfish]

I blame all the new born babies! Kidding but?