from Joe Haggerty of CSNNE,

Claude Julien had just a one word response when questioned why Brad Marchand never got called off the bench for the failed five round shootout loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night.

The B’s bench boss gave a terse “hindsight” when the subject of his leading goal-scorer came up after the damaging 2-1 shootout loss at TD Garden to a Canes team that will be setting up tee times a week from now.

That’s really not good enough of an explanation for a coach leaving his best bullets in the Black and Gold gun in the form of his 36-goal scorer never factoring into the shootout session. It’s the same frustration with Marchand not being considered for the top power play unit despite his scoring prowess, and finishing with the 7th highest ice time on the power play in the loss to Carolina.

Instead Ryan Spooner, Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak, Loui Eriksson and Torey Krug failed to score before Carolina rookie D-man Noah Hanifin flipped a backhanded bid under the bar for the game-winning goal.

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