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A bad season for the Bruins is beginning to get downright ugly, with the Bruins blown out once again Wednesday night in Anaheim, this time with a 6-2 final against John Gibson and the Ducks.
For the Ducks, the scoring was led by Leo Carlsson and his two goals, but it was ultimately a well-balanced attack from the Quack, with five different goal scorers on the Bruins’ Joonas Korpisalo. Carlsson’s first tally was an important one for the club, really, as his shorthanded goal on Korpisalo late in the first period allowed the Ducks to get something out of a 15-shot opening frame on the Bruins.
13th time this season the Bruins have allowed at least six goals in a game. Most since 1986-87 (13). https://t.co/1AdcYmA67v
Down by two in the second half of the second period, the Bruins halved their deficit by way of a David Pastrnak power-play tally, good for his 35th marker of the season.
But just as brought things closer and had something to feel even somewhat good about, the Black and Gold fell into a familiar trap when the Ducks countered with two goals a 48-second span, including yet another goal with under two minutes remaining in a period in what has to be the ugliest theme of the B’s 2024-25 campaign.
Just like that, the Bruins found themselves down by three through 40 minutes of play.
And that was ultimately that.
The Bruins got on the board with their second and final tally of the game in the third period behind Morgan Geekie‘s 26th goal of the campaign, but that goal only came after another two tallies from the Ducks in what was the B’s second straight game of allowing at least six goals.
Overall, this was the second time that the Bruins had allowed at least six goals in back-to-back games this month alone, which is something that the club had not ‘accomplished’ since Dec. 1965.
In goal, Korpisalo finished with 31 saves on 37 shots faced, and honestly it’s scary to think how much worse it could’ve been for the Black and Gold had Korpisalo not been up to task in the first period.
And with the loss, the Bruins are officially on their longest winless stretch since what was ultimately a 10-game winless skid (0-6-4) that ran for a full month during the 2009-10 season.
Callahan fined for cross-checking Ducks' Harkins
As if losing — and losing in blowout fashion once again — wasn’t enough for the Bruins, one defenseman took a hit in the wallet Thursday, with the Bruins’ Michael Callahan hit with a $2,018.23 fine by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for cross-checking Anaheim’s Jansen Harkins.
The incident occurred on the net-front scramble during Nikita Nesterenko’s second-period tally that pushed the Anaheim lead to 2-0 in what finished as a 6-2 win for the Ducks.
The Franklin, Mass. native Callahan certainly got his money’s worth on the cross-checking call, too, as he got Harkins square in the face and was assessed a double-minor for the infraction. (It was a four-minute penalty, but was dropped down to two as it was deemed Nesterenko’s goal was scored on the delayed penalty, dropping it from a four-minute penalty to a two-minute penalty.)
Callahan and Harkins dropped the gloves later in the game in what was a likely response to the second-period incident between the two.
Callahan goes with Harkins, I assume in response to the crosscheck earlier. Callahan clearly not a fighter. pic.twitter.com/jKGbecTBIr
In what was his 14th appearance of the season (and his NHL career), Callahan finished with one shot, a blocked shot, and minus-1 rating in 14:14 of time on ice.
Overall, the 6-foot-2, lefty-shooting Callahan has totaled five hits and 11 blocks over that 14-game sample this season.
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