Bruins Notes: An aggressive Boston shot madness misses to produce victory.

BOSTON — The Bruins certainly didn’t have any shortage of offensive opportunities in a home matchup against the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. Boston ripped 32 shots at Vancouver goaltender Kevin Lankinen and earned three power-play chances. Those opportunities did not amount to a single goal in a 2-0 loss to Vancouver in another rematch of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. The Bruins have not scored more than two goals in a game since their 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Nov. 12. The loss to the Canucks was the first game Boston dropped since interim head coach Joe Sacco took over for Jim Montgomery, now leaving the club with a priority moving forward. “I thought we had a lot of good looks tonight,”

“I thought we had a lot of good looks tonight,” Charlie McAvoy explained. “It stings right now. You have to believe that the dam will break at some point. Just hope it happens soon. “We have to keep playing the right way.”

Former Bruin Jake DeBrusk thought Boston outplayed Vancouver on that side of the puck Tuesday night, just as McAvoy had.

“Other than that, we played pretty well,” McAvoy stated. “We had more shots than them. I thought we played better. I assumed we had more O-zone time. I assumed we had more looks. We just did not score.”

The Bruins are doing the simple things correctly to create excellent opportunities. They now need to convert them in order to gain momentum under a new head coaching regime.