Considering their championship experience and wealth of game-breakers, it would be silly to write the Bruins ’ obituary 60 minutes early. (lukefoxjukebox)
“Yeah, it is. What do you think? It’s Game 5, right? At home. So, there you go,” Krejci said. “We’ll put more pucks in the net next game.The Leafs’ man-on-man defence scheme wasn’t supposed to be this suffocating. Their breakouts weren’t supposed to be so clean.
At this point of last year’s opening-round tilt, the Bruins had scored 20 goals. They’re stuck at 14 now, a 30 per cent defensive improvement that can be accredited to the additions ofand Jake Muzzin, a matured commitment from Toronto’s young core, and the poise of goalie Frederik Andersen. “We’d obviously like to see them generate more, but there’s not a lot of room out there,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said., a breakout star and clutch scorer 365 days ago, was supposed to find the net.got booted, Charlie Coyle’s line was supposed to fare much better in comparison to winger-turned-centre William Nylander’s.“We have to attack, attack, attack. Get all over this team,” Coyle said Saturday.
“I didn’t think we had energy in the bottom of our lineup. They don’t generally play their fourth line a lot,” Cassidy said. “I do believe the remedy is generating shots for rebounds and see if we can put them under duress in that regard.
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