from Zack Cox of NESN,

Bruins coach Claude Julien spent close to five minutes Tuesday night railing on the lack of effort, commitment and focus his team showed in a loss to the San Jose Sharks.

Brad Marchand drove that message home in one pointed response.

“I think right now,” the winger said after Boston’s 5-4 loss at TD Garden, “if we’re going to get out of this, and we’re going to start putting a few wins together, we have to have everyone going every night, and we can’t have any passengers at all. If we have one, that’s enough to cost us a game. And right now, we have way too many.”

“Passengers.” Those are the last things a team like the Bruins, one that is in semi-rebuilding mode and rife with unproven NHL talent, needs. A team like Boston needs top-to-bottom buy-in from the entire roster, and, as Marchand, Julien and several other Bruins team leaders acknowledged Tuesday, it simply has not been there on a consistent basis.

“Well, it didn’t look like the focus was there for the most part,” goalie Tuukaa Rask said. “You look at most of those goals, how they got scored on, I think it’s just lack of focus for the most part. There were some nice goals, but lack of focus.”

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