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When the lineup had questions, the Bruins stuck with Ritchie. Inside the bubble the last two days, there was little talk of hockey. In the second period, he threw a questionable hit of his own. Nick Ritchie blasted Yanni Gourde with a late, punishing hit in the second period of Game 4 on Saturday that earned the plodding Bruins winger a five-minute major for boarding. “You turn pucks over against Tampa, it starts there. It should have been met with skepticism.Since he's been in the lineup this postseason, it's been clear that Ritchie was not a useful piece. Lightning Talking Points: B's miscues pile up in Game 4 lossBruins vs. There’s been a lot of hits, big hits in this series that maybe haven’t been called and I’ve been flagged a couple times. I don’t know if the explanation was it was late or if it was a 225-pound man hitting a 170-pound man and that’s why the penalty is called," said Cassidy. But I guess we’ll ask that question [and] find out what the thinking was.”Cassidy was referencing a shoulder-to-shoulder hit against the end boards in the first period when Paquette slammed into Kuhlman, and then Ritchie put the Bruins shorthanded for a couple of minutes by jumping a player in Paquette who's never going to answer the bell. Guys that we rely on to be hard defensively, good awareness, checking players get scored on the first goal.

Lightning schedule: Updated dates, times for NHL playoff seriesBruins vs. [It was] a very, very, very, very, very similar hit, no call. I didn’t agree with the call.”“I thought the hit was late,” said Cooper, whose team took advantage of the five-minute advantage to go up, 3-0. As a Black man, I don’t have that privilege. [That] just doesn’t happen over a long period of time. We need to be more assertive in those areas. It would have been best for all parties if the Bruins recognized it hasn't worked and sent Ritchie back to the press box.Maybe they'll do it for Game 5. Ritchie's hit was roundly criticized on the NBC broadcast in the studio between periods and had TV analysts, media and Bruins fans alike calling for Ritchie to be benched for the rest of the game. But so much remains the same, including Tampa’s strengths of depth and skill, and Boston’s sheer inability to score even strength which has been their downfall in each of the last three postseasons, including this one.After Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron and David Pastrnak were the driving forces behind the offense in the Game 1 win, they have been effectively contained during even strength play just as they were two years ago vs. Tampa Bay’s big defenders. Heinen to the Ducks for Ritchie, a top-10 pick in 2014 who hadn't lived up to expectations but had size (6-foot-2, 230 pounds) that would have attracted teams in past versions of the NHL.Ritchie had eight goals in 41 games for the Ducks, which was impressive at first glance, but clearly an outlier given that Ritchie's shooting percentage (11.4) was way higher than his career average entering this season (8.3). Tampa Bay has clearly shown in the last two postseason meetings they are a better hockey club than the Bruins, and they are doing it again this series.The only question now is how many games it will take and what the Bruins are going to do about a better team in their division blocking their way these days.It’s clear after four games that something needs to change with the Black and Gold, because it’s not good enough right now. “He played through a player’s shoulder as I saw it. That is all we can control right now.”It’s a nice sentiment from Coyle, but it’s not about mentality when it comes to the Bruins and Lightning. The Bruins have been away from their families for six weeks and many of Boston’s key players have young families that they’re understandably missing right now.That kind of situation is going to chip some of the resolve away from a hockey club that’s down big in a playoff series.That’s just human nature and the Bruins players most definitely fit into that category.“It’s all a mentality.

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