Depression was everywhere on Saturday night leaving the TD Garden. Walking through North Station, dozens of fans sat down, burying their faces into their gold rally towels in disbelief at the way this series has turned. The Boston Bruins, winners of the Northeast Division and many of the pundits' pick to represent the Eastern Conference in the Cup Finals, are down two games to none to none other than their arch-rival Montreal Canadiens.
It hasn't been a good start for the Bruins. They've scored just one goal in 120 minutes of play, have gone 0-for-9 on the power-play through two games, and have found themselves playing on even-footing on the scoreboard with the Canadiens for a mere three minutes and 27 seconds of the entire series. And now potentially without a sickly captain
Zdeno Chara in the line-up, times are tough for the Bruins.
"We just have to believe," a sullen B's alternate captain
Patrice Bergeron said following the 2-0 loss.
Unfortunately, for a distraught fanbase with Cup-dreaming eyes, times are equally as tough for the shrinking amount of believers. But learning from the past, and more importantly witnessing the past, should give reason for fans in the Hub to lift their heads for at least another night.
Why? Because this team isn't dead yet.
In 2008, the Bruins found themselves down 2-0 to the Habs and ultimate forced a Game 7. In 2009, the team fell down two games to one to the speeding Carolina Hurricanes, once again to battle back and force a Game 7. However, the most startling example of why you should never give up came last year in the Bruins' collapse against the seemingly dead Philadelphia Flyers of 2010.
For three games, the Bruins dominated the Flyers. They danced around them with a solid medley of scoring, and the Flyers' best players were held to close to nothing. But somewhere along the way, the Flyers woke up. An overtime goal away from elimination, Philadelphia rallied with a strong showing and show the heart it takes to respond to severe adversity.
In short, for better or worse in Boston, the 2010 Flyers taught us to believe and realize that no team is dead until the final whistle in their fourth loss of the series.
The 2010-11 Boston Bruins are no exception. Their best players haven't been at their best, with each member of Boston's top line posting zeros across the board thus far, and there's room for improvements in all areas of the game. A notoriously streaky team throughout the regular season including stretches of seven straight wins, following by dropping seven of the next nine, there's simply nothing that says the Bruins don't possess the ability to respond with a strong game or two in the noisy and historically unfriendly confines of the Bell Centre.
"I think when you’re down in the series like that and you got to climb back up, it definitely is a challenge of characters and will, desire, commitment and everything else that goes with it," Bruins coach
Claude Julien said. "And we got to role up our sleeves here and go back to work."
Despite an 0-26 record in team history when trailing two games to none, the Bruins remain poised and ready to respond. "Confidence is a big part of it," Julien said. "And we have to have that confidence that we can go out there and play our game and be a better team than we have shown."
"The pressure is on us now,"
Mark Recchi added. "I believe in this group of guys and we’re going to have to go show them on Monday."
Let's start the show. As long as there's time on the clock, these Bruins simply can't be counted out.
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