Is Pavel Zacha’s contract situation impacting his play? Is youthful mistakes going to be a season-long thing?

The Bruins embraced youth this year.

They put some young players in.

They want to give young players a chance.

They want to give them time.

They want to let them develop and sort of learn on the job at the NHL level.

And I think there's going to be some growing pains and some sort of peaks and valleys associated with that.

And I'm not putting it all on the young players in that game against Ottawa.

I think there was a lot of awfulness from beginning to end, A to Z, on that particular night.

But I think there's going to be nights like that when you're introducing young players and there's maybe some chinks in the armor that can be exposed at times by other teams with those young players.

And, you know, I think we saw it in that third goal.

It's kind of the backbreaking goal.

I thought the Bruins had a horrible first period, obviously.

But that third goal, James Higgins tries to backhand dump a puck in or make a play backhand at the offensive blue line.

It gets picked off immediately, and he compounds that mistake, not dumping it in, by changing and leaving.

And it turns into a bad change, turns into an easy goal for Ottawa.

Beginning minutes of the second period, they go down 3-0, and that's kind of a back-breaking goal.

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