The Bruins are still on a streak alright, it’s just not quite a streak they’d typically hope to find themselves in. Boston has now lost eight out of their last nine games, seemingly now routinely giving up leads late in games to teams that are almost nowhere nearly matched talent wise.
It’s hard to pinpoint the issues that the B’s face to one obvious thing, which is why I think it’s a culmination of lots of small manageable things. The first of those issues being, David Pastrnak was not going to score 82 goals this season and be the Bruins be all end all hockey god. It was not a realistic expectation for Bruins fans that he would be the answer to any solution by simply outscoring everyone else.
Secondly, the capitalization on key scoring chances has gone missing (or at least that’s what it feels like). Whether it be a breakaway late in a game, or especially in overtime, Boston’s forwards can’t seem to hit the twine when the opportunity arises.
Tell me if this sounds familiar: Bruins score take lead, then give up lead, then tie it late, have multiple breakaway opportunities in overtime, can’t score, proceed lose late in OT or in a shootout. It doesn’t seem like the Bruins are playing bad hockey, it just feels like it’s been 55 minutes of good hockey, and 5 minutes of bad puck luck or unawareness.
The goaltending by both Rask and Halak have been fine not fantastic, but it’s incredibly hard to pin this negative streak on either of them.

The Bruins still have a comfortable nine point lead in the Atlantic Division, but that gap is slowly dwindling. I do have confidence that Boston will climb their way out of this slump as any team with strong leadership would.

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