"If focus, effort and energy were measured in goals, the Bruins would have fared better in yesterday's 2-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Garden.

Factoring in Thursday night's shutout loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, the B's lack of scoring since the All-Star break is now an issue.

"We were better (yesterday) than we were the other night," coach Claude Julien said. "I thought we played a lot harder than we had but like everything else, when you are struggling you don't just come in the next night and everything is fixed."