If there’s been one trend about the Boston Bruins this season, it’s that the cellar-dwelling teams of the National Hockey League have made a habit out of bringing the worst out of the club.
So perhaps it was fitting that the Bruins ended their non-playoff opponent slate with one more dud against a team they won’t see again until next October at the earliest, this time by way of a 3-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators at TD Garden.
On the second leg of a traveling back-to-back that kicked off with a 2-0 shutout loss in Washington on Monday night, the Bruins took to the ice with the same tempo as they did in that defeat, and had just three shots on goal through 20 minutes of play.
They didn’t get their fourth until almost the six-minute mark of the second period, and in just a 51-second stretch at the midway point of the middle frame, goaltender Linus Ullmark and the rest of the Bruins found themselves in an 0-2 hole against a downright dreadful opponent.