Bruins spoil return of playoff hockey to Toronto
Actually, let backtrack on that. Given the way the descendents of Red Horner and Syl Apps battled back, urging themselves forward to try and fashion an improbable come from behind victory after repeatedly shooting themselves in the skate laces earlier, you could say the Leafs lacked neither heart nor effort in their first home playoff outing in nine years.
Wisdom? Definitely lacking there, and certainly at those moments when the game, a 5 2 Boston Bruins triumph in Game 3 of their best of seven playoff series,
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did a lot of good things, said Leaf head coach Randy Carlyle. the mistakes we made aren going to allow us to win many hockey games. The Leafs now trail the series 2 1, and that smells like big time trouble.
But this game, this night, was as much an event in this city as it was a critical professional sports contest, although Carlyle might quibble on that point.
In many burgs, fans would have long ago abandoned the locals after so long a playoff purgatory. Not here, not where the Leafs have been as well supported as any pro franchise in the world, all logic and common sense aside.
For Game 3, the populace surely contributed as much as it could, responding to the first sighting of spring hockey in years. But all the noise and beer swilling and Leaf jersey wearing in the world, and yes, all the hoping and imagining and yearning,
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No surprise, really. Hostile Canadian environments seem to bring out the best in the Bruins.
Two years ago, they lost two home games to Montreal to begin the playoffs, then roared back to knock off the Habs with some dominant,
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Later that spring, they went into Vancouver home rink for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final and walked out with the trophy.
These Boston fellows love crossing the border. Give a harder time at customs has got to be the Harper government diplomatic response,
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Monday night, it should be said,
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As soggy and misguided as the Leafs were in falling behind 4 1, they were equally rambunctious and determined in trying to claw back in the third.
The local heroes were as close as 2 1 in the second period of this grinding, punishing contest 99 combined bodychecks on a goal by defenceman Jake Gardiner, igniting the powder keg of emotion in the often snoozy ACC.
could feel the electricity in the building, noted Boston coach Claude Julien.
A word on Gardiner: up and down between the NHL and the minors during the season, in and out of Carlyle good graces, he was a whirling, speeding revelation on this night. Along with Nazem Kadri, he may turn out to be another positive result from the new philosophy of Leaf management to patiently develop players rather than throw them to the wolves.
positives are far outweighing his negatives, said Carlyle, no easy man for a young player to satisfy.
But just 50 seconds after the Gardiner goal the Bruins scored a beautiful goal on a combination between power forwards Milan Lucic and Nathan Horton.
Kessel got that back in the first minute of the third with his second goal in two games against his former team. From there on, the Leafs poured into the Boston zone in rush after rush, with Gardiner skating miles, James van Riemsdyk making one good play after another and Joffrey Lupul hurling his body into one opponent after another.
Cody Franson ripped one off the post. This series isn over, even though the experience and bruising sensibilities of the Bruins seem to have them destined to advance beyond the Leafs to the next round.
In defeat, the Leafs made a 47 shot statement of desire, but at this point statements are for suckers. Victories are all that matter, and the Leafs need to win either three straight or three of four to play on this spring.
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