"We beat ourselves," Boughner said. "Twenty-four turnovers. The first four goals all came off our sticks on turnovers. I wish I could sit here and talk about structure and details and that we didn't do this or didn't do that as a team, but it wasn't that…. Bad turnovers that ended up in the back of our net."
Trailing just 1-0 after the first 20 minutes, the Panthers struggled mightily in the second period, where they were outscored by Boston 5-2. Those five goals were the most that Florida has allowed in a period since surrendering five in the second period of a 6-5 shootout loss to Philadelphia back on Oct. 16.
Jayce Hawryluk and Mike Hoffman each scored for the Panthers (33-30-12) in the middle frame.
"It's tough, especially with a young goalie. We hung him out to dry," Panthers defenseman Keith Yandle said of the second period. "It's something we talk about as a team. You don't want to do that, especially when you're fighting for your lives, fighting for your spots."
In the third period, Vincent Trocheck scored on the power play to cut Boston's lead to 6-3 at 3:57. But at that point it was too little too late. At 19:33, Patrice Bergeron cashed in on the empty net to make it 7-3.
"I think they were pretty self-inflicted," Trocheck said of Florida's mistakes. [The Bruins] do the same thing every night. Like I said, they're obviously a very structured team. They work really hard… It's on all of us to kind of get back and do the right things that we work on every day in practice."
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