This is hardly the way the Bruins envisioned things heading into the bye week.
With another chance to surpass the Maple Leafs in the Atlantic Division standings, the Bruins let a winnable game slip through their fingers against a rebuilding Rangers squad Saturday night at TD Garden.
Adding injury to insult, Tuukka Rask left Saturday’s contest after sustaining a concussion when Filip Chytil ran into the Bruins netminder following a hit from Charlie McAvoy prior to the Rangers’ first goal of the evening.
“Tuukka took the brunt of that collision,” McAvoy told reporters postgame. “There was no way to prepare for it because he was focused on the puck.