Trending: Helm gets third goal in three games but Wings fall to Bruins

BOSTON -- Tuukka Rask and the Boston Bruins were not going to be denied at home.
The Red Wings came into the game having won the previous five games against the Bruins, including two this season at Little Caesars Arena.

But the Bruins had only dropped two contests in regulation at TD Garden and goalie Tuukka Rask was 13-0-6 at home.
Despite taking a 1-0 lead into the second period, the Wings could not add on to the lead nor prevent the Bruins from scoring three goals in a span of 4:29 as they earned a 4-1 victory Saturday afternoon.
Darren Helm (shorthanded) scored for the Wings.
Charlie McAvoy, Patrice Bergeron (shorthanded), Charlie Coyle and David Pastrnak scored for the Bruins.
Detroit goaltender Jonathan Bernier (12-17-2) made 37 saves.
Boston goalie Tuukka Rask (22-5-6) had 25 stops.
Up next for the Wings is the second half of the road back-to-back set with a Sunday afternoon contest in Pittsburgh against the Penguins.
The Bruins will also complete the second half of their back-to-back Sunday as they travel to New York to take on the Rangers.
1. Darren Helm: Helm did not miss a lot of time with his recent injury just two games, but he has been on fire since his return. Helm scored twice in Buffalo Tuesday night. In the first period Sunday while rookie Gustav Lindstrom was in the penalty box for holding, Helm and Luke Glendening had a 2-on-1 shorthanded chance. Rask stopped Helm's initial shot from the right circle but couldn't cover the rebound, which Helm promptly potted at 3:12. It marked Helm's ninth goal of the season, the most since he scored 13 during the 2017-18 season. The goal was unassisted. Helm finished with 19 shifts for 15:17, had three shots, two hits, one takeaway, was 1-for-1 in face-offs and was plus-1.

Quotable: "I think the one issue we had, again especially in the second period, is that we were losing too many battles in the offensive zone. It was one and done every time, and that resulted in us playing in our own end instead. That's another thing. It comes down to winning one-on-one battles, good puck decisions and we gotta help Bernie more." - Frans Nielsen
Quotable II: "I'm a little bit at a loss for words. It's frustrating. It's disappointing. We've got 20-some games left here that we gotta battle through. It's easy when things are going badly just to shut it down but we've got 20 games here. Guys have got a lot to prove. No one's had a great year here. We've got a lot to prove to ourselves and to management. We just gotta be proud to put that jersey on every single day." - Luke Glendening
Quotable III: "I just think spend more time in their zone. If we do that then obviously they'll be tired, they'll chip it in and change. I think when we're one and done, that's when they come at you in waves. They stay in our zone and they cycle and that's how they get to 40 shots." - Bernier
Quotable IV: "I thought a lot of guys, I thought the majority of the team worked and competed. I think we definitely got their best, specifically I thought the Coyle line in the first period was really good, got us hemmed in. But it wasn't from a lack of compete. I thought in the O-zone and on the power play were two areas we lost puck battles by some of our more skilled players. We got to make sure we bear down in those areas for sure. We shot ourselves in the foot a bit in the second." - Wings coach Jeff Blashill
2. Jonathan Bernier: Bernier was under no illusion that it would be an easy Saturday afternoon in the Garden. The Bruins have two of the most offensively gifted players in the league in David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand, who have 81 points and 71 points, respectively. The Bruins had 18 shots in the first period alone. Among the best saves in that frame were on Marchand from the left circle at 6:53, on Chris Wagner's rebound at the net front at 9:25 and a glove save on Torey Krug from the left point at 15:41. The onslaught continued in the second as Coyle had a good chance from the right side two minutes. At 8:01, McAvoy got a rebound from the slot to beat Bernier after he stopped Marchand's initial shot. Bergeron managed to get past the Wings' power-play unit at 9:40, his 25th goal and first shorthanded goal of the season. Coyle redirected McAvoy's shot at 12:30 as the Bruins scored their third goal in a 4:29 span.

Quotable: "Like I said even when I was winning, you just got to focus on your own job. You can't let 3-4 losses in the row get to you. You just got to keep working hard, keep doing your thing and give the best chance for your team to win hockey games." - Bernier
Quotable II: "Bernie was great tonight. It seems like it's the same every night. He's been playing outstanding. He kept us in that game. We were fortunate it was 4-1 probably with the saves that he made. He played great again." - Glendening
Quotable III: "I know it's a good team but they have to at least work for their chances out there. Bernie had a great game, by far our best player on the ice and we still let up four. That says everything." - Nielsen
3. Trevor Daley/Second-period woes: The Wings just can't seem to make it through a game without losing a player. Veteran defenseman Trevor Daley was the latest victim as he left in the second period. In the third, the Wings announced that he had an upper-body injury and would not return. After playing seven shifts for 5:23 in the first period, Daley had just four for 3:05 in the second. After the game, Blashill had no update on Daley but if he cannot play Sunday in Pittsburgh, Madison Bowey will likely draw back into the lineup.
The Wings have had notoriously rough second periods this season. Coming into Saturday's game, opponents had outscored them 83-39. Turnovers and poor execution in the second led to the Bruins scoring three unanswered goals, including a shorthanded goal. On the third goal, defenseman Filip Hronek appeared to take a high stick to the face but there was no penalty called. As he tried to recover, the Bruins scored.
Quotable: "I think it was a message from Blash that it wasn't good enough in Jersey more than anything. I think it's more the second period. They had it too easy, and that's been an issue for a long time for us in the second period. But then again, it's a great team over there, and they're gonna get chances." - Nielsen
Quotable II: "Some games it's been puck management. Some games we just gotta stop the leak. One thing goes bad, it'll be 1-1 and the next thing you know, it's 4-1. We gotta continue to work on that, continue to keep battling. There's a lot of things in our game that need to be better but second periods are definitely one of them." - Glendening
Quotable III: "If you look at it, we probably got leaned on more in the first than the second and then the momentum got away a little bit. If you look at those three (goals), one of them we were supposed to be going the other way. We just kind of over-skate the puck and the next thing we know it's in our net. The next one's a power play. We have a bad change and it's in our net. And then the third one we got the puck in the O-zone and 20 seconds later it's in our net. You got to do a better job on that. I thought as team in general a bunch of guys worked and competed. There's some guys that got to do better." - Blashill