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Slow Start Dooms The Boston Bruins

05/03/2018 at 7:41am EDT

from Tara Sullivan of the Boston Globe,

Buy a new alarm clock.

Load up on caffeine.

Maybe take a quick lap around the building before the first puck drop.

Whatever it’s going to take for you to wake up, Bruins, now is the time to try it.

Because for the second straight game in this second-round playoff series versus Tampa, Boston was asleep at the first-period wheel, falling behind early and unable to catch up, a two-goal deficit by the end of the first period holding up until the game’s final seconds, when Steven Stamkos’s empty-netter provided the final indignity of a 4-1 Lightning win.

“You want to be the ones to throw the first punch,” defenseman Charlie McAvoy was saying afterward, a muted Bruins locker room reflecting the players’ disappointment. This is the first time they’ve trailed in a series this postseason, and the home-ice loss Wednesday night negated the advantage they’d stolen after Game 1.

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