Brad Marchand clarifies the Bruins' situation

"I think we got a little too loose defensively," Marchand said to NESN's postgame coverage. "Our biggest problem this year is we just give up too many odd-man rushes and that was a big problem again. You can't expect to give up three and four breakaways a night and multiple two-on-ones and expect to win games. We need to be much tighter over the ice defensively."

"We've been loose. Missing coverage kind of everywhere on the ice," Marchand said. "It's gotta be a little bit more dialed in certain areas and that'll help with a little bit more practice. We haven't had a ton of practice. We go over it on video and try to talk about it but we need some reps at it and we'll work on that on Wednesday and hopefully be better on Thursday."

"You can't have any weak links in this league," he said. "There's so much parity (in the league) you see it every night. The last-place team can win any night. You just have to be dialed in on your details and the biggest thing for our group is we always work. That's where it starts for us and we got to get back to that."