In case your wondering YES there are 60 Minutes in a hockey game... Bruins Please take note

That's right kiddies, once again the Bruins failed to play a full game and it cost them. For the first forty minutes the Bruins fooled us all into believing that they had actually turned the corner and where about to hand the red hot Sabres their first regulation loss of the season. I personally could not believe what I was seeing, less than 6 minutes left in the game and the Bruins where dominating the Sabres at every level, the score was 4-1, they where out shooting them, they where even out skating them. Then out of no where, the wheels fell of the bus and it came screaching to a hault.
What happened? They just stopped skating, coaches stopped coaching. The final five minutes of the third period turned what was Boston's best performance of the season into one of their worst let downs in team history. (Of course nothing will surpass blwoing a 3-0 series lead against the Habs, but this was dam close)

The Bruins remain adimant that they did not sit back, simple fact is that they just lost their control of the game... Hmmm the following is a quote off the Bruins blog that to me says, WE SAT BACK AND TRIED TO WIN BUT DID NOT.

I don’t think we were sitting back…we ended up chasing the puck a lot and they got a hold of those pucks and they scored on those [chances]. We should prevent those…it’s definitely a tough way to lose like that…we earned a point, but it could have been two…it’s always tough when you are leading the whole game and in the end the [other] team puts pressure on you and you are protecting the lead. We’ve got to learn to be more poised and patient with those times. We made some mistakes in our zone and didn’t get those pucks out. When you make one, two, three mistakes in a row, usually that is not good. That’s how they earned…two points.”
Captain, Zdeno Chara, after the Sabres game
To me the sentences above contridict one another... where you sitting back or where you not? Protecting the lead to me reads "sitting back" they got away from the style of game that won them two periods of hockey and that is what cost them. They simply stopped skating and tried to defend the lead with pure defense and with Thomas or Hannu in net, you can NOT let any team build up shots, let alone the Sabres.

Kudos to Marc Savard on a three point night. He played one hell of a game, shame on Kessel, he had a chance to end it in OT and he missed the net, granted the ice was likely bad and the pressure was high, but this is one aspect of the game this kid is suppose to bring. He'll bounce back but it would have been nice to see him finish it. I know time... it takes time, not sure the Bruins have much time left.

The power play looked much better, scoring twice on four tries. They jumped to 19th overall. penalty killing was better, however they remain at the bottom of the original 30 on that one.

More to post after today's practice at NOOOOON TIME.