Bruins’ star players’ strange answers to getting boo’ed off the ice by fans:
The fanbase in Boston had enough last night when the Bruins were dealt their fifth straight loss.
On Tuesday evening, the Bruins dropped their fifth consecutive game with a 4-0 loss to the Edmonton Oilers and the fans in Boston have had enough. As the final second ticked off the clock, fans in attendance at TD Garden boo’ed the team off their own ice, frustrated with the Bruins’ performance since the start of the 2024-25 season. It also prompted fans to chant for general manager Don Sweeney's dismissal.
Insider Fluto Shinzawa of The Athletic met with players after the humiliating loss at home and most of them could no longer ignore the fans’ reactions and frustration. When asked how he felt about the game, forward Elias Lindholm said:
“A lot of disappointment. Embarrassed. Frustration,” Lindholm said. “A lot of things.”
Let’s hope it sank it a lot more than that…
To make things worse for the Bruins, who are third in the Atlantic Division with 45 points, up next, they face the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers, though if they loss, they won’t be at home to get boo’ed again…
That’s no excuse for interim head coach Joe Sacco who is focused on what needs to be done quickly to turn things around.
“We have to find some solutions within our team,” Sacco said. “That’s the next step for us.”
However, Shinzawa is blunt : there is no help coming seeing that GM Sweeney “has little cap space to add and nobody is ready down below.”
Not what the crowd wants to hear either… And the fanbase especially wanted to hear that booing the franchise has woken up the players, though we won’t be able to tell until they play next.
Defenseman Charlie Coyle was also asked how fans have been reacting and what’s the plan moving forward, telling Shinzawa:
“We need to do a better job of that and identifying that and making sure we’re doing the right things. It’s never going to be a perfect season. No team plays perfect. Every team has lulls. But we’ve got to stop the bleeding quicker here. We can’t let it seep in game after game like that with his little stretch going on right now.”
“That’s our job at the end of the day, and we’re all getting paid for it,” Nikita Zadorov added when speaking about balancing calm and urgency. “People come and pay tickets, big bucks to watch us do that. It’s our job. There’s no excuses to find the balance.”
Let’s hope the Bruins’ players get why the fans have had enough and will do something about it quickly.
