If you’re in a scoreless game with less than two minutes and have Tim Thomas as your goaltender, you have to like your odds. 

That’s where the Bruins found themselves Thursday night as they battled a Florida team that’s shocked the league by leading the Southeast division to this point in the season. Then, the Panthers shocked the Bruins when Joe Corvo failed to clear a rebound in front of Thomas, allowing Tomas Kopecky to score the game-winning goal in what would be a 2-0 Panthers win thanks to a Kris Versteeg empty-netter. 

The result of the loss was something the Bruins haven’t had since the end of October: A losing streak. 

After picking up points in 15 consecutive games entering this week, the Bruins have now dropped their last two contests to the Jets and Panthers, respectively. For a team that prides itself on not getting to high when things are going well, it’s no surprise that the Bruins aren’t hanging their heads now. Plus, if you ask Shawn Thornton, the B’s aren’t even on a losing streak.

“We're pretty good at not getting too low,” Thornton said after the game. “I think a streak's three though. … Somebody [once] said I had a point streak. I said, ‘No it's not a streak until you hit three.’”

Regardless of what you consider a streak to be, it isn’t the end of the world, and, as strange as it may seem given the last month, it’s nothing new to the Bruins. They showed with their month of November that they can respond to road bumps in enormous ways, and they came five posts away from winning Thursday night. They’ll look to avoid reaching a Thornton-approved losing streak Saturday in Columbus.

THEODORE CONTINUES TO HAUNT BRUINS

As Jose Theodore, playing in 600th career game, was shutting out the Bruins at TD Garden Thursday night, it was hard for anyone watching to be surprised. 

Theodore, who hails from Quebec and broke into the NHL with the Canadiens, has been a thorn in the Bruins’ side for quite some time. He was between the pipes when the Habs eliminated the B’s in the first round in both 2002 and 2004, and he’s been able to beat the B’s without having to wear the Canadiens’ blue, blanc et rouge. 

Since leaving the Habs during the 2005-06 season via a trade to the Avalanche, Theodore, who at age 35 is now on his fifth NHL team, has gone 6-0-1 against the Bruins. 

The Panthers, who are now ahead of the Bruins in the standings, are surprisingly legitimate. Theodore, who is 11-5-3 this season with two shutouts, is a big reason for that.

FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE SEGUIN ORDEAL 

Some might be tired of this story, but allow me to pull a Dave Grohl and offer one last thing before I quit talking about timezone/breakfast/poor excuse/whatever-you-want-to-call-it-Gate. 

However this issue was resolved, it was resolved behind closed doors. The Bruins made the punishment public, but if Seguin offered any kind of team-wide apology or vowed to set three alarm clocks in each time zone from now on, no one outside the room was made aware of it. That’s fine, but the logic behind black-and-gold apologists claiming this whole thing isn’t “news” is as confusing as Seguin’s time zone-defying alarm clock story. 

If the Bruins didn’t want this whole thing to become a big deal, they wouldn’t have announced to the world that 19-year-old superstar Tyler Seguin wasn’t playing because he missed a mandatory meeting. Putting two and two together, they probably made the news public so he could fully face the consequences of his actions and learn a lesson. As such, Seguin was topic of discussion No. 1 on WEEI Wednesday, with fans calling for accountability.   

When Peter Chiarelli gave the reasoning for the scratch Tuesday night, the media (yes, predictably) ran with it. That’s the media’s job: To cover the team, its games, practices and any team-related news.  Like it or not, one of the best players on the team being scratched for disciplinary reasons is enormous news – as in, news that lasts more than 24 hours – especially when the team was off and unavailable the following day. 

So, now that the storm has settled and the Bruins have publicly turned the page, here’s what we know: Seguin was in his hotel room, but didn’t get up. We’ve all been there, and everyone’s given their opinion on it. What we also know is that Seguin has missed more than a few meetings in his season and two months in the NHL. His teammates, based on the lack of discipline against them, have not. That's pretty staggering, and it might mean that on a team full of incredibly committed players, Seguin, who is still 19, might have to work extra hard to shake any kind of notion that he might not be up to speed in that area.