"Most all of them were penalties. The beef the B's had was that the Bolts were not dealt with as harshly by the officials. The lack of a matching roughing penalty when Jake Guentzel hit Mark Kastelic after Kastelic roughed Oliver Bjorkstrand as well as a missed trip perpetrated on McAvoy while the B's were killing a 5-on-3 just before Sean Kuraly was called for closing his hand on the puck were just a couple of head-scratchers."
"That's the good thing about those kind of games, especially when you lose those kinds of games. You should learn from it. Sometimes you have to go through those failures. And for me, today was one. Again, it just shows me that we're not there yet, said Sturm. We've got to learn from it and we've got to move on. Again, we were playing without our top two centermen (Elias Lindholm and Pavel Zacha) and the way our young kids"
Boston led 5-1 in the second period but surrendered the advantage and lost 6-5 in a shootout to Tampa Bay in front of 65,000 spectators. Charlie McAvoy took a roughing penalty that began a stretch of seven straight Lightning power plays, and several noncalls and perceived uneven officiating fueled Boston's collapse. The Bruins must regroup and finish the pre-Olympic schedule strongly, with coach Marco Sturm urging players to learn from the lapse while noting the team has gone 11-2-2 since the start of the year despite missing top centermen.
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