Teams Meeting On "Black History Hockey Night" At CPA
Two teams angry at themselves will try to take it out on each other Monday at Climate Pledge Arena.
The Boston Bruins are mad because they're coming off back-to-back overtime losses. Saturday, they led Vancouver 2-0 with seven minutes left before eventually falling to the Canucks, 3-2 in OT.
In fact, six of the last seven Bruins games have gone past regulation. The only one which didn't was a 4-1 Seattle Kraken victory in Boston in the teams' first meeting on Feb. 15.
The Kraken are chewing nails because their Winter Classic uniforms showed up Saturday against Minnesota, but the players inside them didn't. The 5-2 home loss to the Wild dropped Seattle five points out a playoff berth.
Defenseman Vince Dunn: "It sucks to lose. It's not the time of year to be showing up for half a game. Being outworked, that's not what any of us deserve in this dressing room."
Center Yanni Gourde: "We can't take that many penalties. We kind of shot ourselves in the foot."
Winger Jordan Eberle: "We weren't proud of what happened. We got undisciplined and they took advantage. We've got to find more urgency, more consistency."
Coach Dave Hakstol: "We should be pretty upset with ourselves. That's me included, head of the line. We lost our composure a little bit 5-on-5. We're going to have to be better tonight getting out of our own zone."
Hakstol's other key to tonight's game: "A short memory."
Philipp Grubauer (pictured above), who relieved Joey Daccord in the 2nd period Saturday, is expected to start tonight. Expected line tweaks include Andre Burakovsky switching lines with Oliver Bjorkstrand, and Kailer Yamamoto slotting in for Tye Kartye.