Marco Sturm Gives Brutally Honest Assessment Of Bruins’ Frustrating Loss
'One of their worst games of the year'
The Boston Bruins finally suffered their first overtime loss of the season on Saturday, losing 5-4 to the Vancouver Canucks in shootouts at TD Garden.
It was a frustrating loss for the Bruins, who saw their perfect 6-0 record snapped in shootouts. Boston outplayed the Canucks and had more than twice as many shots on goal, but made several costly mistakes and mental lapses that came back to haunt them.
The Bruins had multiple chances to win the game in shootouts but failed to score in all seven of their opportunities, missing out on a point in the process.
After the game, head coach Marco Sturm was clearly disappointed in the final outcome and didn’t hold back in his analysis.
“Those little individual mistakes, I would say, cost us,” Sturm said during his postgame interview. “Some guys, it was probably one of their worst games of the year. Unfortunately, it just cost us a point.”
Sturm acknowledged that Boston played well early on but wasn’t able to maintain it for the full 60 minutes, failing to put Vancouver away and allowing them to come back with sloppy miscues.
“Those kinds of teams, you have to put away early on, and we just didn’t,” Sturm added. “And all of a sudden, little things make a big difference. Special teams again. But yeah, it was just unfortunate.”
After losing three of their last four games, the Bruins will look to bounce back against the Ottawa Senators at home on Sunday.
