from Joe Haggerty of CSNNE,

The bottom line for the B’s: they were outshot 38-20 in a feeble offensive performance, and made it too easy for the Canadiens at Boston’s end of the ice.

Claude Julien is preaching puck patience while his young players and newcomers find their footing with the Bruins, but that’s easier said than done at this point.

David Pastrnak had a tough turnover and D-zone shift that led to one goal, and Matt Irwin was on the ice for another couple of goals. The Bruins had some tough luck as well with bad penalty calls against them, and a goal waved off that should have counted once Julien used his coach's challenge on the goalie interference.

“We’re definitely young, so there’s no doubt that played a part in our game tonight. We’ve got to get better in certain areas, we’ve got to keep working on it and those young guys are going to get better if they keep playing and getting some experience. We’re going through some growing pains,” said Julien. “The thing I liked is no matter what we stayed with it, we killed a lot of penalties in the third period, and we got another goal to try and get ourselves back into it.

“I thought the guys kind of at least had the right attitude whether we did it right or wrong hockey-wise, we had the right attitude to try and at least keep ourselves in this game.”

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