Out on Pastrnak fighting
There weren’t many positives from the Bruins 6-1 Game two loss in Florida. The Bruins were unable to get shots on net, they had plenty of turnovers in the defensive end. They also have a playoff high five too many men on the ice penalties for the playoffs. The Bruins went up 1-0 on Charlie Coyle’s first goal of the playoffs. The Panthers came back to even the score and then the game got away from the Bruins late in the second period. The Panthers scored three times including a dagger with with seconds remaining in the period. Jeremy Swayman was pulled for Linus Ullmark to give him work in the series.
The third period was a disaster. Not only did the Bruins give up three more goals with Ullmark in net, a total of twelve players were ejected for fighting. Montour got in the face of Brad Marchand and and the gloves were off. Patrick Maroon, Trent Frederick, Justin Brazeau, Charlie McAvoy and Marchand were all off the ice. Matthew Tkachuk went at the star player David Pastrnak instigating a fight with him. Of course the enforcers of the Bruins are all out of the game and Pastrnak had enough. He asked coach Jim Montgomery if he could fight. Mongomery asked “Are you sure” and then gave the blessing. That was my biggest problem with the teams best player getting into a fight in a meaningless outcome of a game.
