David Pastrnak was not happy with the officiating on Monday night after the Bruins' 3-2 overtime loss to the Buffalo Sabres.
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But as the Bruins made their way off the ice following their third-straight loss, Boston’s star winger David Pastrnak opted to give the officiating crew another earful on the frozen sheet.
“I mean, I felt like if anybody should get a power play in the overtime it should have been us,” Pastrnak said postgame. “I think they’ve been having power plays the whole game. Yeah, that’s just my opinion. That’s why I was mad.
“I thought Korpy got slashed, when he covered the puck twice on the power play, and then they could have evened it up, and they decided to look away. So frustrating that they got the power play opportunity in overtime, but at the same time, we made the mistakes on the puck to make it happen. But it’s very frustrating.”
Korpisalo did little to hide his frustrations during overtime, at one point drop-kicking the puck out to center ice in order to object to what he viewed as a post-whistle slash by Buffalo.
“I thought it was a penalty,” Bruins interim head coach Joe Sacco said of Khusnutdinov’s penalty. “But I did think before that — I think it was Mason [Lohrei] who had a two-on-one. I thought there was an opportunity for a call there. I thought he got slashed on his hands on the 2-on-1 before that.”
“We have work to do,” Pastrnak said. “We’re trying to build with every game. And like I said, if you look overall at the effort. The effort was there today. We played overall a much better game than last game.
“We can build from that. And as I said, we just need to be better — because, we’re going on the [West Coast] trip, and if you’re not going to show up there with effort and and hard work ethic, it’s not going to be pretty.”