Trending: Detroit's Boston hex continues

BOSTON --It might as well be Halloween as the Red Wings' horror show in Boston has reached epic proportions.
Coming into Saturday afternoon's contest, the Bruins were 14-1-1 in their last 16 games against the Wings and had won eight straight in Boston.

Detroit's last regular season win in Boston was a 3-2 triumph on October 14, 2013. And after Saturday's 8-2 shellacking to the Bruins, Detroit will have one more opportunity this season to erase their Beantown woes on December 1.
David Pastrnak (hat trick, one goal on the power play), Charlie McAvoy, Jake DeBrusk (two goals) Anders Bjork and Sean Kuraly scored for the Bruins.
Filip Hronek and Dylan Larkin were the Wings' goal scorers. Hronek's power play tally at 0:21 of the third period was his first NHL goal.
With the win, the Bruins are 4-1 on the young season while the Red Wings fall to 0-3-2 and are still in search of their first victory of the campaign.
To make matters worse for the Red Wings, their already depleted defensive corps took another hit when Danny DeKeyser suffered an upper-body injury in the first period and did not return to action. DeKeyser played just 1:31 of the first period and the extent of his injury is still under evaluation.
The Wings must regroup quickly as they will play the Canadiens Monday night in Montreal, a place that hasn't been too kind to the Red Wings either, but at least it isn't Boston.
1. Blue Line Injuries:Already missing Mike Green (virus), Trevor Daley (upper body) Jonathan Ericsson (upper body) and Dennis Cholowski (upper body), the Red Wings' defensive unit took another hit when DeKeyser suffered an upper-body injury in the first period and did not return to the game. After the game, Wings coach Jeff Blashill told reporters DeKeyser's status is unknown and he does not know if he will be available for Monday's game against the Canadiens. It has been a nightmare for the Red Wings' blue line on the injury front, with the only saving grace that the Wings' rookie defensemen of Hronek, Libor Sulak and Joe Hicketts have not looked out of place in the lineup. However, with three rookies in the lineup and being down to five defensemen for almost the entire game, a potent offensive team like the Bruins took full advantage of Detroit's situation. They were relentless in the Wings' zone and had several odd-man rushes.
Quotable:"I don't have any update except that he (DeKeyser) couldn't finish the game. We put too much pressure on them tonight, on the D. But when you go down to five and three inexperienced guys, you just put too much pressure on them by the way we played. It happened in L.A. and we didn't play like that. We protected them way better by playing the right way, playing in the other team's end. We better learn from it. I don't know what you label it, but we better learn from it." -- Blashill
Quotable II:"We basically go down to five D right away and that makes it more important that you try to play in their end and get pucks deep, so our five D don't have to go back and get pucks all night and get hit all night. So as forwards, we did a poor job of that." -- Frans Nielsen

2. Jonathan Bernier: Bernier made his second start of the season and played fairly well in the first period, but he probably would have liked to have Pastrnak's first goal back, the one scored at 19:09 of the first. Pastrnak skated through the Red Wings' zone and fired a hard wrist shot that beat Bernier glove side, but it was a shot he saw all the way. The Bruins broke the game open with three second-period goals, which Bernier had little chance of stopping. For the game, he faced 39 shots and made 31 saves for a .795 save percentage.
   Quotable: "We hung him out to dry for sure. Honestly, I don't even know if you can evaluate that game because of how many Grade-A chances we gave up. We must have (given) up 20 Grade-A's plus. You give up that many Grade-A's, you're hanging your goalie out to dry for sure. I don't think it's much of an evaluation on Jonathan. I think from his perspective, put that behind him. We need to give him a better effort the next game. -- Blashill
   Quotable II:"Real tough. We hung him out to dry way too many times. He made a lot of good saves in there. We turned pucks over. We didn't play as a unit of five. We made it hard on our D. We played a lot of the second and third in our own zone. When you have five D, that can be tough. We got to be better. We got to learn. The season is young. We got to turn this thing around and get in the win column. Get feeling better, get some confidence back." -- Justin Abdelkader
   3. Dylan Larkin: After the game, Larkin was disappointed he turned down a challenge to fight the Bruins' Noel Acciari at the 19:44 mark of the first period. Acciari and Larkin were jostling with one another on the wall at center ice when the exchange became heated with Acciari dropping his gloves. An official quickly got between the two, but Larkin didn't engage. He didn't drop his gloves. Larkin was assessed a double minor for roughing, while Acciari received a minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. In 16:08 of ice time, Larkin scored a shorthanded goal, his third goal of the season, was minus-1 and won 40 percent (6-of-15) of his faceoffs.
   Quotable:"The big play I'm kicking myself in the butt over is when they had that first goal at the end of the first period, I don't even know who it was that wanted to fight, and I didn't answer the bell. I think if I did it could have changed the momentum in the game and maybe got some momentum back on our side and showed us that we were ready to battle, that we weren't intimidated. I'm looking at myself right away and I could have done that and helped our team feel more confident and showed those guys we're here to battle. I think it's part of the game. That's a play that happened. He ran me over and I went after him and he dropped his gloves. It's hockey and it happens. I didn't answer the bell. It's not the total reason we lost. It's just a play, if I would have done that it could have changed the game in our favor, maybe feel a little more confident." -- Larkin