"I think at the end of the day, if you can come back from a road trip worth a winning record, I think it becomes a successful one," Head Coach Claude Julien said following the team's pregame skate on Monday morning."
"So, that's what we have to do tonight is worry about this game and making sure we get the results that we want."
Through two games, the Bruins scoring has come from just the line of David Backes, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand. While the effort from the other lines is there - with Julien recently talking about the hard work of Matt Beleskey and Jimmy Hayes - the results have not been.
"We're going to have to find ways to start contributing offense here," said Hayes. "Trying to get more offensive zone time, wearing teams down and getting more pucks to the net as a line, as a whole."
While the Marchand-Backes-Pastrnak line got hot on opening night, and Pastrnak notched his third of the season for Boston's lone goal in Toronto, the Bruins know they can't rely on that production.
"It's going to be huge for the whole team producing," said Hayes. "When you have your best players firing like that, it's always great to see. It gets the team going."
"But they're not going to bring it like that every single night as much as they want to. We're going to have to find ways for our lines and the other lines to contribute as well."
The Black & Gold can start by getting more bodies to the front of the net and not making "drive-by" plays as Julien referenced following the loss in Toronto.
"I think for us as a line now, we've got to have someone that's going to get to the front of the next," said Ryan Spooner, who is looking to get on the board along with linemates David Krejci and rookie Danton Heinen. "I think the three of us are used to being the setup guy on our line and I think one of us just needs to get to the front of the net and I think that should help."
"We've just got to stick to the game plan," said Krejci. "It kind of feels like we've been trying to do somebody else's job and not sticking with what we have to do as individuals on the ice. But at this time of the year, we've got to stay patient and working hard, and it's going to come."
"We had a bad game, but bad games happen," Krejci said. "We watched video from last game and learned from our mistakes, and we'll do better next game."
