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BOSTON-- Injured Boston forward Patrice Bergeron skated for a little much more than20 minutes inside a one-on-one session with group power and conditioning coachJohn Whitesides. It had been the second-straight day the concussed Bergeron hasskated, that is good news.

Thebad news, however, is that Sunday's skate came just about 12 hrs after Bostonlearned just how much they missed their do-everything center. Saturday night,in Game 1 with the Eastern Conference Finals at TD Garden, Boston dropped a 5-2choice to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Bergeron's absence was felt in almost eachand every facet of that reduction.

Bergeroncould have aided Saturday evening in numerous methods.

Letus begin with the faceoff circle. Boston won just 26 of 67 draws Sundayevening, a 39-percent success rate. Bergeron was winning much more than sixtypercent of his attracts within the initial two rounds as Boston's main faceoffguy. David Krejci, assuming that role in Bergeron's absence, went 3-for-18within the game before becoming replaced late by Rich Peverley.

Bergeron'sabsence also harm the team on the penalty destroy, although more discreetly.Bergeron is really a key penalty killer and he was changed by Krejci, who'sgenerally held in reserve so Boston can roll out its top line at the finish ofa effective kill.

"No.one, we misplaced a very good penalty killer in Bergeron," Julien stated."Second of all, it appeared some of the men heading within the penalty boxwere some of our penalty killers, so you are one brief prior to the sportstarts and also you get short by an additional guy because he's within thepenalty box. These are the sorts of things that are difficult to alter with,but at the same time you like to maintain [David] Krejci as being a clean mancoming out together with his line after killing penalties and that is usuallysome thing we try and utilize that line for.

"Itproduced it difficult, and sometimes you need to use him early, which means youattempt to save him which means you can arrive back again with his line withinthe end. But they've just been around the ice and they are tired so I cannotstart them off. So it was a bit of problem, but a problem you are ready for asbeing a coach. You take a look at all of the situations and also you try towork about it."

Infact, Bergeron's absence impacted all 4 lines during even power also.

Thetop line's rhythm was thrown off its usual rotation simply because of Krejci'sadditional duties.

Boston'sfourth line stayed collectively, but saw more time than usual simply becauseJulien was hesitant to play Seguin following Tampa Bay'sthree-goal-in-85-second uprising. The rookie got just two shifts within the 2ndtime period.