FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Bruins shall be aiming for his or her fifth straight win once they kick off a four-game street journey on Thursday night time towards the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena. Boston completed March profitable six of seven and posted a 10-3-3 file for the month, inserting the Black & Gold eight factors away from a playoff spot.
“What I liked about [our play in March], we stayed with our game, with the program, going back to January, February,” head coach Marco Sturm mentioned following Thursday’s morning skate at the Panthers’ coaching facility. “I used to be not too blissful to have [the Olympic Break], truthfully, in February as a result of I felt like we had a superb factor going and I didn’t need to actually mess it up.
“But having said that now, the guys came back exactly the same. It took us a little bit, I think, in February. But I think now we are back on track here in March and that shows in the results.”
Fraser Minten – who has been using on the highest line with Marat Khusnutdinov and David Pastrnak – is having fun with the depth of the stretch run as Boston eyes a playoff berth.
“It’s sick, it’s so fun every game,” mentioned Minten. “It’s such high emotions, high intensity. It’s why we play the game, why we want to be out there. I’ve been loving every game here down the stretch…we have lots of good, competitive guys that want to win and their resilient if you want to sum it up in a word…we all get along well, just trying to play to win and never say die.”
