With the Winter Classic this Friday, into TD Garden Tuesday night skated the Ottawa Senators, who took out Boston Sunday night, 3-1, for the Bruins third consecutive regulation loss. Boston had not lost four straight in regulation since March 2012.
Losing David Krejci in Sunday’s loss and Torey Krug in Saturday’s meltdown to Buffalo added up to some tough sledding for Boston into Friday’s mega showdown at Gillette Stadium.
“When you lose a guy like Krejci [and Chris Kelly and Joonas Kemppainen],” Claude Julien said Tuesday morning, “you know you got thinner and thinner, and you’re probably at your thinnest right now.