Late goal gives the B’s sinking feeling

Poor first two periods leads to defeat

The Bruins have gotten a taste of what playoff hockey will be like in their past two games against Metropolitan Division teams.

And they have come up lacking in both urgency and timely goaltending.

Linus Ullmark (26 saves) made a few high danger saves but was beaten on two long distance shots in the third period and the Bruins dropped their second straight, a 3-2 decision to the Flyers in Philadelphia.

But while those two goals were tough to swallow, Ullmark had made other key saves to keep the B’s in it. The lack of intensity with the puck in the offensive zone in the first 40 minutes against a team was even more bothersome. The B’s managed just 13 shot on net through two periods.

They did show some gumption in the third period by erasing a pair of one-goal deficits, but they wound up getting nothing out of the game, which is what they deserved off their first 40 minutes.

After failing to exploit a New York Rangers team that had two key defensemen missing in their loss on Thursday, the B’s also couldn’t beat a similarly shorthanded Flyers team, which was determined to play much tougher in their own zone than they did when they allowed six goals to the B’s last week.

“I just told the team, it’s what we’ve got to get used to. It’s what it’s going to be the rest of the year. You’ve got to have second