Getting to overtime provided an uphill climb for the Boston Bruins.
Boston’s struggling offense couldn’t catch a break through the first 40 minutes and change. At times, they passed up shot attempts and looked for the perfect play. They fell victim to posts, crossbars and pucks nearly trickling over the goal-line when they fired pucks toward goal.
It all nearly crumbled on them even after Coyle scored his third of the season late in the opening stanza. A defensive lapse on Anthony Duclair’s tally early in the middle stanza and an Aleksander Barkov power-play one-timer in the third period put the struggling Bruins in another hole.