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Plus/Minus: Bruins Come Up Short, Handed 5-3 Loss By Dallas

BOSTON (CBS) - After a hot month of January compiling a 8-1-3 record and seeming to turn the proverbial corner, the hometown hockey team is starting to cool off.

The Boston Bruins have lost three of four in the month of February, including a 5-3 loss Tuesday night at TD Garden to Tyler Seguin and the Dallas Stars.

Following the game, 98.5 The Sports Hub's Rich Keefe, filling in for Adam Jones, spoke with Dave Goucher and Bob Beers of the Bruins Radio Network for a recap.

The Stars scored not one, but two shorthanded goals on a Bruins team that hadn't allowed one all season, which Goucher says the Bruins simply can't have.

"David Krejci is trying to make a pass across the blue line and it gets picked off by Vernon Fiddler, who scores on the breakaway. And then the second shorthanded goal the Bruins battled back from a 3-1 deficit, they tie the game and they're on the power play to grab the lead when Trevor Daley is allowed to go from one end to the other, gets a shot away, grabs his own rebound and is able to put it in pretty easily. For the Bruins, you can't have it," Goucher told Keefe.

"It makes it real hard to win when you give up goals of that fashion. It hadn't happened all year, but that's just one of a lot of things that didn't go right for this team tonight."

Color man Bob Beers expounded further on the bad night for the B's.

"It wasn't just the [shorthanded] goals, it was just the overall play. There was a lot of lack of execution. Coming up the ice, nothing was clean here for the Bruins," said Beers.

"You can talk about getting traffic to the front of the net, you can talk about burying chances up front, but the Bruins fought the puck tonight and fought it throughout. It looked a little methodical here. You want them to clean things up defensively and they didn't do a good job in that department. There wasn't a lot of flow to their game. There was something really missing from the execution, from the flow, from the speed -- everything in this one. It seemed like they had to fight for everything they got."

"Everything was a struggle," added Goucher.

Listen below for their full Bruins game summary:

After his chat with Goucher and Beers, Rich Keefe gave his three highlights and lowlights from the game in a segment called Plus/Minus.

Listen below!

Hear every game of the 2014-15 Boston Bruins season on 98.5 The Sports Hub — the flagship station of the Boston Bruins. Pregame coverage with Dave Goucher and Bob Beers begins 30 minutes prior to every game!

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