COMMENTARY
The Boston Bruins returned home from their four-game trip on Tuesday with a couple of new additions to the lineup. They began their brief two-game homestand with the same result as their final game in Western Canada.
The Bruins didn’t find that second gear against a desperate Calgary Flames bunch as they dropped their second straight game for the first time since mid-January. A pair of goals from Sean Monahan a minute and 22 seconds after Brad Marchand’s shorthanded tally and Mikael Backlund’s two lamplighters late in regulation — after Chris Wagner pulled the Bruins within one at 13:09 of the third — sparked Calgary to a 5-2 victory at TD Garden.