The losses simply hold coming for the Blackhawks.
A 4-2 defeat Wednesday towards the Bruins marked the Hawks’ fourth straight regulation loss and 18th general of their first 26 video games of the season, dropping them deeper into final place within the NHL.
“We’re not proud of the document, for positive,” coach Luke Richardson stated. “We don’t appear to have one Achilles’ heel. There’s not one [specific] downside with our group. One night time, there’s one space…and the following night time, it’s one other space by a special participant. It’s an accumulation of one-offs each night time that put us behind the 8 Ball.
“It will get irritating on gamers and weighs on their confidence and their execution within the subsequent recreation, so typically it lingers. Nobody else goes to assist us aside from ourselves.”
Brad Marchand scored twice simply over two minutes aside early within the second interval to provide the Bruins the lead for good, spoiling one more night time wherein the Hawks scored first — one thing they’ve carried out in seven of their final eight video games regardless of profitable solely two of these.
An introduced crowd of 19,179 on the United Middle introduced the noise and power of about 5,000, and the Hawks weren’t a lot livelier on the ice. A too-many-men penalty after they tried to drag goalie Petr Mrazek for an additional attacker with two minutes left put a foolish of completion on a bland efficiency.
“The factor we don’t wish to see is our bench and our emotion missing typically,” Connor Murphy stated. “We appeared dejected. And that’s not an excellent factor, as a result of we’re dropping some video games right here.”
Dangerous night time
A blocked shot within the first interval stung Alec Martinez and marked the start of a really unhealthy night time for the veteran defenseman. He was on the ice for all 4 Bruins objectives.
Martinez took out his frustrations on the bench door after lacking the web within the second interval, and issues solely worsened from there. He didn’t discover Bruins ahead Morgan Geekie slipping behind him for a third-period breakaway objective that was the Hawks’ back-breaker.
“He blocked that shot and he was fairly sore the remainder of the sport, however he marched on,” Richardson stated. “That’s only a robust night time. Each time he was on the ice, they appeared to attain. However [it was] probably not something immediately [attributable] to him. That occurs typically. He’s been by way of rather a lot in his profession — I’m positive he’s had that earlier than — so he’ll handle it high quality.”
