In an almost comically dominant second period, the Lightning scored three straight goals and cruised to a 6-2 win. The B’s played pretty well in the first period and not bad in the third period, but that second period – when the Bolts held a 20-0 shot advantage – was a doozy.

Boston looked formidable after 20 minutes, before a disastrous second frame helped seal its fate. The post Shotless second period deflates Bruins in 6-2 loss to Lightning appeared first on Boston.com.

Boston was outshot, 20-0, in the second period and fell behind, 4-1, in falling to 30-30-8 on the season. The Bruins showed some signs of life in the third period, but Tampa Bay (38-23-5) were content to dump and chase and keep Boston’s skaters outside the circles after Marat Khusnutdinov scored 23 seconds into the third.