Bruins Expecting Response Against Lightning After Lackluster Loss
Boston is set to play Tampa Bay on Saturday after a disappointing loss to Florida.
Bruins Expecting Response Against Lightning After Lackluster Loss originally appeared on NESN . Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Boston Bruins are looking forward to getting the bad taste out of their mouth from the loss to the Florida Panthers on Thursday.
Boston suffered a 2-1 road loss to Florida in a game the Bruins struggled from the get-go and didn’t have much energy. It was a frustrating loss for the team, and now head coach Marco Sturm is expecting the team to come out strong on Saturday against the Lightning. “I think overall, every time you're a little bit harder on them, I feel like they respond better,” Sturm said after practice on Friday.
“(Thursday) again, (the Panthers) have a lot of guys out and we've seen that picture before. I’ve seen it before. “We just took it a little bit too lightly, I thought.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that just can't happen, especially this time of year, so that's why it was so frustrating. We didn't play our game for 40 minutes, and that cost us the game. ” Although the Bruins are firmly in a playoff spot, Sturm felt like the team needed to play better, and he firmly expects the team to come out strong against Tampa Bay, which could be a potential playoff preview.