BOSTON — The Bruins fell right into a 2-0 gap in opposition to the Carolina Hurricanes earlier than tying the sport within the third interval.
Although Brad Marchand potted two objectives within the third, the Bruins fell to the Hurricanes after giving up a breakaway objective to Jordan Martinook.
“The trouble that was there within the third, that was there,” Charlie Coyle instructed reporters after the loss. “And that’s an indication of what we now have, however we’d like extra of that early on.”
The Bruins not solely gave up a objective in every of the primary two durations, however each got here whereas Boston was on the penalty kill.
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“It’s arduous sufficient on this league to get right into a gap like that, however (our penalty kill) must be higher,” Coyle mentioned. “We gotta do a greater job there and provides us a greater probability. I believe our all-around sport wasn’t as much as par to begin.”
Coyle added: “We had been form of late on the puck. I believe we must be a bit of extra on our toes and we weren’t.”
The Bruins top-center is aware of the group performs arduous and has no give up when their backs are in opposition to the wall, however desires to see them begin on time.
“We come out, and it’s only a completely different sport we play,” Coyle mentioned. “We’d like that focus proper from the beginning.”
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Coyle mentioned the group will have a look at movie from the loss and apply the required modifications to their sport once they head north of the border to tackle the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night time.
