Faith is getting hard to come by in the TD Garden. The Boston Bruins are playing .500 hockey. The defensive core has been hammered by injuries and poor performance. They’re 26th in the league in goals-against and dead last while on the penalty kill.
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The Bruins have a good game (like their 3-1 solid performance against the Red Wings) and then follow it up by giving away multiple power play goals and having a poor defensive mind-set. The Bruins find themselves taking penalties at bad times, and the other teams have been able to capitalize on those errors to steal wins from the Bruins.