Chalk the Bruins’ recent overtime setback in Calgary as a missed opportunity.
After another sloppy opening 20 minutes, Jim Montgomery’s squad appeared prime for a letdown less than 24 hours after securing a wild overtime win over the Edmonton Oilers. If it weren’t for Charlie Coyle capitalizing on Jakob Markstrom’s head-scratching blunder late in the opening frame, the Bruins might not have even come away with one point in their second tilt of the season with the Flames.
In prototypical Bruins fashion of late, they wasted whatever momentum from Coyle’s tally at 18:41 of the opening frame when Martin Pospisil buried a rebound a mere 42 seconds later.