Sometimes a sports writer can only type so much on why a professional sports team struggles in a certain area of the game. But when a team finds new ways to continue to struggle in said part of their game, it gives journalists something else to talk about.

Case in point the Bruins power play which on Saturday night allowed the Rangers to score two shorthanded goals at pivotal moments. This is the same Bruins power play that is ranked dead last league with a paltry 7.9 percent efficiency rate.

Simply put, it’s not cutting it for Claude Julien and company.

“I don’t know if you want to call it sloppy, but it definitely hurt our chances and that was the biggest issue for the hockey game,” Julien said about the power play after the Bruins’ 5-2 loss to the Rangers at TD Garden.

‘Sloppy’ was one of a few terms thrown around in relation to the Bruins power play on Saturday night. Overaggressiveness and lackadaisical were among the other adjectives from the Bruins players and coaches.

Any one of those terms are quite appropriate to describe the two shorthanded goals by Derek Stepan (at 17:59 of the first) and Kevin Hayes (2:18 into the second). In one case, Torey Krug was caught trying to keep the puck in the near boards in the Bruins’ offensive end leading to Stepan’s go-ahead goal. In another instance, Hayes capitalized on a mini-breakaway and sniped on past Tuukka Rask to put the Rangers ahead by two.

Two goals against and no goals for the Bruins power play going up against the top offensive team in the league in the early part of the 2016-17 season.

“At the end of the day we let the team down because we were a minus-two,” said Krug, who only has one assist in 11 games. “We have to realize there’s two parts of the power play and that definitely deflated our team.”

The other part that Krug alluded to was the puck movement and creating scoring chances. That part wasn’t all that bad at certain times as the Bruins were moving their feet and getting some good looks on Rangers goalie Antti Rannta, who made 35 saves in the winning effort.

At times the Bruins power play resembled some similarity to Thursday’s outcome against the Lightning where they broke a skid of five straight games without scoring on the man advantage. The other end of the spectrum is what led to the Rangers shorthanded chances. Because of that, the Bruins power play is now back at square one.

“We wanted to build from the Tampa game. I thought it was a way that we wanted to execute on the power play,” said Patrice Bergeron, who scored his second goal of the season on a feed from Brad Marchand to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead 3:44 into the first period. “Tonight we missed a few chances, but still we’re giving up two goals. It’s not even close to what we can accomplish and it’s actually hurting the team right now, and it’s about us trying to find a way to get better.”

With a five-game in seven-day stretch that begins on Monday when they host the Sabres, the Bruins power play, indeed, needs to be better.