subject: Insanely Consistent In Their Inconsistency [print this page] Say this for the Bruins this season: they are insanely consistent in their inconsistency.It manifests itself in many different ways for a hockey team thats clearly still coming to grips with the harsh spotlight of superstardom, but its been a frustrating case of one step ahead and two steps behind that again served as the theme in a 4-2 loss to the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night at TD Garden Three times this season the Bruins tapped into their style of game against a quality opponent for a win, but in each case they couldnt follow up with another strong, winning effort.Cheap Jerseys Thats the kind of forever .500 hockey that the Bruins need to stay away from if they hope to be in playoff position come November, but its also exactly where theyre headed unless things get changed.Its tough to put yourself in a hole that way. Youre playing catchup all night. Its an easy game when youve got the lead: you can dump the puck in and chase it at the right time and you feel good about yourself, said Chris Kelly. But when youre playing from behind you need to make those plays and try to make something happen every shift.
The Bs first periods arent always mistake-filled gong shows where theyre dominated pillar-to-post by an opponent, but theyre certainly not ideal for the Bs either.
Saturday nights loss to the Sharks marked the sixth straight game that the Bruins had allowed the first goal to their opponent. Its a bad movie that the Bs players have already seen before this season, and theyre getting pretty tired of it.We don't want to try to start the game off down a goal. In the first couple minutes it seemed like we weren't even there, so they came out and scored the first goal. Then after that it kind of like woke us up a little bit and we started to play better, said Johnny Boychuk. We had plenty of chances and I thought we did play really well (after the first few minutes). We just have to make sure to bury it when we do have those chances.Wholesale cheap jerseys The opening 20 minutes havent been completely disastrous for the Bruins this year, though.There was a perfect example in the first period when the Bruins had a 3-on-1 at the Theyve only been outscored by a 6-4 margin in first period this year, and have actually enjoyed some of their best offensive chances in opening periods.But the offensively inept Bruins havent been able to cash in on their great scoring chances, and thats the problem as Claude Julien sees it. San Jose net, and Brad Marchand unloaded a pass toward Krejci crashing the net with too much mustard on it to make a connection.It served as a chance lost and a lesson learned.
