from Fluto Shninzawa of the Boston Globe,

After Wednesday night’s 5-2 loss to the Rangers, Claude Julien did not have a beef about a first-period Lee Stempniak goal that was denied after a coach’s challenge determined Brad Marchand had gone offside. Julien initially argued when he believed the puck hit the netting before Mats Zuccarello opened the scoring at 8:37 of the first, but ceased his contention once video coordinator J.P. Buckley saw the puck had hit the dasher on top of the boards.

But the Bruins coach did not care for a phantom holding call on David Krejci — it was unclear whether Trevor Hanson or Steve Kozari blew the whistle — that led to the Rangers’ second power-play goal, a Derek Stepan strike at 11:39 of the first.

“That was a crappy, [expletive] call,” said Julien. “He knows why he made that call. Really disappointed. But we fought back. We had a goal there they decided to call no goal, and it was inconclusive. We got the wrong end there as well. But at the same time, I don’t think we played well enough to win. We seemed out of synch tonight. Those tape-to-tape passes were far and few in between. We needed to be better. That was the disappointing part of our game tonight, a game we really needed to win.”

Krejci was just as mystified about going to the box.

“I think that was a weak call,” Krejci said. “That happens all the time. The guy didn’t even have the puck. I just touched him. I can’t believe he called that. I just can’t believe it.”

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