Cassidy Explains Why He Benched Jake DeBrusk Last Night.

"It's a privilege to put on the Bruins sweater every night," Cassidy said after the Bruins' 3-2 win over Buffalo. "You might not have your A game. But you've got to bring your B game to help the team win and be a good pro. That's a little bit of the message between periods. I didn't think there was enough of that of late. It wasn't always necessarily tonight. But it kind of festered itself tonight. We delivered it, moved on. You hope the player takes it to heart and doesn't take it personal."

"I've done it since I've been here," DeBrusk said. "Anytime things like that have happened — I think it was my second shift of the game — anytime you don't get your feet wet at all, you obviously want to respond. You want to help the team. I think the shots were 2-6 or something like that. I think it was 1-0 for us after the first. I just wanted to help, maybe get some more offense going, maybe win some more puck battles. Just trying to figure out my game."