Boston has 10 players in the COVID protocol, though it hopes to have some of the back in time for practice on Sunday.

Boston adds four more players to the COVID-19 list, for a total of seven, and suffers its second straight loss.

Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron is added to the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol list, which now includes 17 members of the Flames.

Coach Bruce Cassidy returns from COVID-19 protocols, but Boston loses Brad Marchand and Craig Smith to protocols just before losing to Vegas, 4-1.

Brad Marchand and Craig Smith have been placed in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol and could miss up to six games starting Tuesday night against Vegas.

Boston is coming off impressive wins in Edmonton and Calgary, heading into a busy stretch of four games in six days starting Tuesday.

Boston gets 36 shots but just one goal, a troubling trend for a team that has scored just six goals on 150 shots in its last four games.

Many expect goalie Tuukka Rask – currently unsigned and coming back from hip surgery – to rejoin the Bruins after the new year.

Steven Stamkos scores the winner after Boston erases a 2-0 deficit.