from Joe Haggerty of CSNNE,

After giving five more goals in a 5-4 OT loss to the Philadelphia Flyers where the Bruins blew a two goal lead in the third period, Claude Julien didn’t hold back in his comments about a hockey team that was making mistakes all over the ice. There were poorly timed line changes, soft goals allowed by Tuukka Rask and lost one-on-one battles all over the ice throughout the game, and Julien lamented afterward that his Bruins simply didn’t compete like the Flyers when it mattered.

That’s a pretty damning observation for a well-rested Bruins team that should have skated Philly right out of the Garden while hosting a fatigued Flyers group, which had played against Dallas on Tuesday night.

“I think a lot of it is that we played a light game tonight…a lot lighter than them. They certainly were better in the battles than we were, and they were certainly better at getting back to a scoring position than we were preventing them from getting there,” said Julien, who was referring to both the physical and mental side of the game for his Bruins. “We had too many guys with light sticks, too many guys playing a light game, and that’s not the way we’re going to have some success.

“It’s unacceptable, and what happened tonight I think we probably deserved. They were the hungrier team, and we didn’t respond well…too many light guys. We were bad as a team, and a lot of guys would just go into battle and take a swing at the puck and curl the other way. That’s not the way we play, and it’s not the way we’re going to accept players to play on our team.”

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Below, watch some of the Bruins post-game including Julien...