from Steve Conroy of the Boston Herald,

The Bruins picked a heck of a time to lose their second straight game at the Garden.

The B’s had not lost consecutive games on Causeway Street all season but, after dropping Game 2 here last week – then winning both Games 3 and 4 in Sunrise – the B’s had a chance to end the Florida Panthers’ season in Game 5 at the Garden on Wednesday.

Instead, they gave the Panthers life in the most painful way possible, losing in OT, 4-3, on a Matthew Tkachuk goal.

In overtime, Linus Ullmark went out to play the puck behind the net and had Matt Grzelcyk right next to him but he elected to try a backhand up the boards. It went right to Carter Verhaege in the corner. As Ullmark scrambled to get back in net, Verhaege threw the puck at him and it deflected off his skate out front to Tkachuk, who backhanded it over the sprawling Ullmark and diving Grzelcyk for the winner.

“I thought it was the best play, and it ended up being the worst play,” said Ullmark. “But it doesn’t matter now. We can all think about what I should have done or could have done. But maybe if I did that, it could have been the same result. Who knows? This is the life of hockey. This is the game sometimes. You can’t take anything for granted.”

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