For the first time all season, Tim Schaller won’t be in the Boston Bruins’ lineup Wednesday night at TD Garden.
Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy confirmed Wednesday that Schaller will take a seat, while Tommy Wingels will be in the lineup for Game 3 of the team’s second-round Stanley Cup playoff series with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
#NHLBruins morning rushes:
Marchand – Bergeron – Pastrnak
DeBrusk – Krejci – Rick Nash
Heinen – Riley Nash – Backes
Wingels – Kuraly – AcciariChara – McAvoy
Krug – Miller
Grzelcyk – McQuaidRask
Khudobin— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) May 2, 2018
Schaller had played in all 82 regular season games and appeared in each of the team’s first nine playoff games.
However, Schaller and the Boston fourth line have gone cold of late, and the Bruins aren’t afraid to shake things up, as evidenced when Cassidy benched Danton Heinen for Game 6 of the Toronto Maple Leafs series.
“Fourth line, not as much (in generating scoring chances). They haven’t been able to get as much puck possession,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said Tuesday on a conference call. “I guess the long and short of it is, you need to win the pucks, and you’ve got to find a way to get it into the danger area and get bodies there. It sounds simple, but it’s generally how it works.”
