Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand have been unusually quiet. Too quiet. And when we have heard their names, it’s been for the wrong reasons.
It was still early, of course, and things were subject to change with a well-timed snap of the wrist. But through two games of the Bruins’ Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series with the Blue Jackets — which is now tied at one game apiece after Columbus’s 3-2 win in double overtime at TD Garden on Saturday night — Bergeron and Marchand are still searching for their first point.
Worse, both players committed penalties that led to Blue Jacket goals.