The Boston Bruins didn’t exactly arrive in Winnipeg as a confident bunch. They carried a skid of back-to-back overtime losses into Friday’s contest, both after failing to hold onto a one-goal lead against the Rangers and Wild.
The efforts weren’t as much in question as the crunch-time execution from those pair of OT setbacks. And in Tuesday’s outing against Minnesota, Boston’s competitive spirit shined in the final minutes of regulation after Brad Marchand netted an equalizer shortly after allowing a Ryan Hartman tying marker and Kirill Kaprizov’s subsequent go-ahead tally.
The Bruins, however, left TD Garden with a bitter taste in their mouth after Kaprizov netted the overtime winner.