NEW YORK — Jim Montgomery was far from thrilled in the hours leading up to Saturday’s matinee matchup at Madison Square Garden.
Less than 24 hours earlier, a tryptophan-laden Bruins squad snoozed their way to a lopsided 5-2 loss to the Red Wings on home ice.
“Yesterday was, maybe outside of the playoffs last year in the first round, was the first game where I thought we lost the game,” Montgomery said Saturday morning. “Because of our habits and details. … We never found our game yesterday.”
His frustrations didn’t subside in the first period against the Rangers — when a two-goal deficit and an 8-0 edge in shots on goal for New York prompted Boston’s bench boss to call an impromptu timeout and lay into his roster.