This weekend was a rather frustrating one to be a Bruins fan, as we got more tricks than treats heading in to Halloween. 

Saturday night the Bs really stepped up and played a tight physical game against one of the toughest teams in the league, the Los Angeles Kings. I’ll admit I was a little distracted at a Halloween party of my own, but I still saw enough to know that Boston dominated play for much of the game. Unfortunately when it was crunch time, it was all too little too late and turned into a missed opportunity for the Bruins. They failed to score after taking an early 1-0 lead, and then gave up the game winning goal with 0.00001 seconds (give or take a couple decimal points) left in OT. What could have been a statement victory for this fledgling Bruins team wound up being a disappointing 1-point loss. Albeit, Tuukka Rask played well in first game back from injury, but it still wasn’t enough to add a tally to the win column.

Monday night’s showing against Columbus was awful; I’m not even going to beat around the bush. The Blue Jackets came to play hockey, I’m not sure what the Bruins were doing for the first 50 minutes. Yet again, the team took a million stupid penalties that put them behind from the drop. Brad Marchand looked like the Little Ball of Hate again as his careless penalties negated a Bruins power play on TWO separate occasions (hard for special teams play to be effective when it’s cut short by 1:55). Frank Vatrano also took one of the worst high-sticking penalties I’ve seen in recent memory, which amazingly didn’t cost the Bruins a goal. Unlike Saturday night, Tuukka played like garbage and didn’t really help the team’s cause. Boston managed to battle back and take the game to overtime, when again it’s true colors came out and the team fell flat on its face in a shootout.

I guess at the end of the day it’s a wash, as the team got 2 points in 2 games, it’s just a little misleading that they were both late OT losses; the Bs got robbed of a point in what should have been a solid win and stole a point in a game they didn’t deserve to win at all. Bottom line is the team can’t keep playing this Jekyll and Hyde game alternating wins and losses. It needs to play more consistent moving forward, period.