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July 5, 2009
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Not a good night at the Garden last night. The Bruins played the last place Tampa Bay Lightning and lost 3-1.
You can’t let yourself get beyond frustrated," said B’s head coach Claude Julien after the loss to the Bruins official website. "Hopefully that one goal will help us get a little confidence [in terms of scoring] and the third period, I thought, was a real good period for us.
"Unfortunately…when you don’t score goals, every little mistake you make becomes a lot bigger than it should be."
The difference in they game was that exact statement. Tampa Bay capitalized on its chances and the B’s didn’t. Boston seemingly out played the Lightning the entire game, out shooting the Bolts 36 to 26. The Lightning scored on an early powerplay and Boston couldn’t find the back of the net on any of its man-advantage opportunities.
Tampa made it 2-0 on a breakaway goal by Andreas Karlsson. Almost immediately after, Phil Kessel had a mirror opportunity, but Lightning goalie Mike Smith stuffed Kessel on the breakaway. Chuck Kobasew scored the lone Boston goal.
"We are in a frustrating time right now," said B’s defenseman Dennis Wideman. "Last week we had a couple of games where we didn’t deserve to win, but tonight we played well, we played hard…But we couldn’t get the puck in. We are not capitalizing."
They are going to need to find that scoring touch. With 11 games left, Boston holds the seventh position in the Eastern Conference. The team directly below them in the standings, the Philadelphia Flyers, come to town tomorrow for 1:oo game.