Boston Bruins Need To Tighten Up Their End Game Before The Start Of Playoffs

Boston Bruins have been playing excellent hockey of late. They have scored 4 plus goals in all of the last 5 games. Two of those games were against playoff teams. Opposite that is the Bruins still control the second seed in the Atlantic. The only thing nagging them is allowing those late game goals. 

The Bruins game against the Tampa Lightning was a loss due to a late goal from Anthony Cirelli with only 53 seconds left in the game. That is just an unacceptable goal being this close to the playoffs.

Not only did it happen against the Lightning it happened last night in the Rangers game. Now the Bruins routed the Rangers by a score of 6-3. It was that third goal scored by Mika Zibanejad with only 4seconds left. Only 4 seconds left and they gave up a goal.

Giving up a goal that late in the game is not the to cap off a 6 goal night, where there had been stellar D prior to the goal. This is the time of year to square that kind of stuff up and get ready for the playoffs. Boston should not be allowing the team any kind of leeway in the final minutes of the game.

We saw this last night and against Tampa especially the forwards push when they should stay back and the D try and be aggressive in areas they need to hold. This happened on the tying goal in the Tampa Game. Brad Marchand made a nice steal at his blue line and it was a 3-2 rush. Then Charlie McAvoy tried to get involved. Pastrnak fell down after his shot.

Now Andrei Vasilevskiy made a great save but that gave Tampa numbers going the other way. Nikita Kucherov was also able to make a great shot off the rush and tie the game.

That brings up the next point Tuukka Rask is going to have to make some of those saves. That was a great shot by Kuch but Vasy had just made a huge save on the other end. If the Bruins are going to go deep in the playoffs Rask is going to have to come up with those saves.

Hopefully, the Bruins can clean up their end game before the playoffs, If they do that against the Leafs they won’t make it out of the first round.

P-Bruins Committed To Playing At Dunkin Donuts Center Through 2028-29 Season With New Contract Unveiled

On Wednesday when the Boston Bruins announced that they had come to an agreement with the AHL Providence Bruins on a 10-year extension running through the 2028-29 season it was assumed the Dunkin Donuts Center tenant would remain at the old civic center.

That assumption proved to be right.

On Thursday Trifecta Sports was able to obtain the contract amendment between the owners of the P-Bruins and the Dunkin Donuts Center ownership, the Rhode Island Convention Center Authority. 

The two sides came to an agreement in January that has the AHL franchise remaining at the Dunk through the 2028-29 season aligning with their extension with their big brother in Boston. 

 Providence has played at the Dunk since the teams inception in 1992 and will play all of their regular season home games and playoff home games at the Dunk going forward. In addition the team can play select exhibition games, Boston Bruins exhibition games, and select AHL exhibition games at the center as well. 

The AHL team beginning next season will pay the RICCA $20,000 for every regular season home game and going up $200 a game annually from there through the remainder of the contract. 

For any playoff game or exhibition game a flat rate of $7,500 will apply. For the remainder of the 2018-19 season the team will pay RICCA $8,979 per game. 

Per the Providence Bruins they have averaged 7,793 fans per game in the 2018-19 season 

Boston Bruins Assign 23-year-old Forward Karson Kuhlman To AHL Providence Bruins

On Wednesday, March 27th, the Boston Bruins announced that forward Karson Kuhlman has been assigned to AHL Providence after being ruled a healthy scratch ahead of the NHL team’s game with the New York Rangers. 

Kuhlman,  23-years-old, is in his first professional season and signed a two-year contract with the team on April 10, 2018. 

The former Minnesota-Duluth Captain made his NHL debut against the Los Angeles Kings on February 16th and scored his first NHL goal against the Sharks on February 18th. 

Through seven games with Boston Kuhlman has two goals and seven assists. During his time with the P-Bruins he has played in 58 games with 12 goals and 18 assists for 30 points with a plus-23 rating.