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Breakfast is often regarded as the most important meal of the deal, but for the Bruins, it's the mandatory one. Which is why Boston's leading scorer, Tyler Seguin, found himself in the press-box of the MTS Centre for the Bruins' first visit to Winnipeg in almost 16 years. Missing the team breakfast this morning, the 19-year-old's ability to hit the snooze button (and reportedly not the first meeting he's missed) would end up costing the Bruins dearly in what become the club's first regulation loss in almost 40 days.
Turning to Tuukka Rask on the second leg of a back-to-back that began with Monday's thrilling win over Pittsburgh, a sleepy skating first period from the B's ended when an Andrew Ladd softy marker put Boston in a 1-0 hole to end the first period.
Peppering Winnipeg goaltender Ondrej Pavelec for 17 shots in the second frame, powered by two (unsuccessful) power-play endeavors, the Bruins would finally crack the 24-year-old three minutes into the third frame. Knotting things up when a Danny Paille shot appeared to go off Mark Stuart's stick and (somehow) bounce off Shawn Thornton and in, the stalemate between the foes would last for just a minute and a half.
Following offsetting minors between David Krejci and the Jets' Zach Bogosian following a Krejci hit on Stuart, a bump that left the former B's defensemen down in a heap for a few moments, a four-on-four sequence would go anything but pleasant for Boston's Rich Peverley.
Beat as clean as can be on a face-off by former teammate Bryan Little, the 12th overall pick from the '06 draft would storm down the ice before beating an unusually sprawled out Rask to give the Jets a lead that simply wasn't budging.
Holding the fort down for the next 15-plus minutes, there was simply no beating Pavelec on a night that saw the Bruins fire 40 shots on Winnipeg's masked man.
Ultimately spelling the end of the Bruins' point-streak, which ends at 15 straight games with a point, seizing 29 of 30 over that run, the B's will look to begin a new streak on Thursday when they play host to the upstart Florida Panthers.
Seguin scratch shows that Boston's golden-boy isn't invincible
You never want to see your leading scorer in the press-box as a healthy scratch. But if you're on the Bruins, don't you have to like the consistency B's coach Claude Julien showed tonight with his decision to bench the 19-year-old. Despite his 25 points, and despite his insurance goal just one night ago, the message from the Boston bench-boss was clear: You're not above the team.
You got a big dome, eh?
Hey, if you haven't seen the Pure Hockey commercial featuring Boston agitator Brad Marchand, you're welcome.
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