Things took a turn for the worse yesterday with a report talking about locker room tensions and a possible rift between Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak. Speaking on the "Jones & Keefe" show on Friday,

WEEI’s Rich Keefe is doubling down on his take that there's a problem between Bruins captain Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak.

Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand called a WEEI report about David Pastrnak being the center of a rift on the team "blatant lies."

Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins is taking a radio host to task after a report that teammate David Pastrnak refused to play on the same line with him A report on Friday which indicated there was a major rift within the Boston Bruins has been called out by one of the players named in the report.

The Bruins are slip-sliding away down the Atlantic Division standings with six straight losses and it's beginning to elicit narratives. Speculation is swirling that there is tension in the Bruins' locker room between star forwards Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak.

The Boston Bruins have had to do some strenuous lifting this year and are beginning to collapse under the weight of it all, as a miserable start to the second half of the season has slashed their playoff hopes in half.