The Boston Bruins slogan for the start of the season is "Hibernation Ends in October." Apparently that does not apply to the power play. Or in general.
The Bruins were once again held scoreless on the powerplay and fell 4-3 to the Colorado Avalance in a terrible effort. Perhaps the Bruins should use one of those first round draft picks they got for Kessel to acquire some heart.
The Bruins showed their lack of team defense early as Milan Hejduk was allowed to stroll through the front of the net and grab a rebound to beat Tuuka Rask on the power play.
Less than a minute later Tuuka Rask gave up a terrible, awful, atrocious rebound that landed right in front of Scott Hannan and soon after found the back of the net to put the Bruins down 2-0.
The Bruins mounted a comeback in the second after goals from Mark Recchi and Blake Wheeler. However, the Bruins awful penalty kill allowed Colorado to go back up on a Marek Svatos goal.
Three minutes later the Bruins were putting on a clinic on how NOT to operate a power play when David Jones took the puck and scored short handed.
Michael Ryder scored in the third to bring the score to 4-3 but it was too little too late for the Bruins, who couldn't duplicate the magic they had agains the Islanders.
Thus far this season the Bruins have been playing incredibly uninspired, almost like they expect to just be handed victories. They're going to need to a quick turnaround if they don't want to completely fall of.
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