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A Good Day And Bad Night In Boston

04/18/2017 at 7:19am EDT

from Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe,

It was shaping up as a perfect Marathon Monday.

Postcard weather. A seamless 26-mile Boston Strong race with the usual thousands of feel-good/inspirational stories. A third straight win for the Red Sox at Fenway. And finally . . . the Bruins brought the NHL playoffs back to the Garden and recovered from a 3-0 second-period deficit against the Ottawa Senators.

But they could not finish. The Bruins battled back to a 3-3 tie, and gave us some great hockey, only to lose in the sixth minute of overtime on a power-play goal by Bobby Ryan after a cheesy roughing penalty on Bruins forward Riley Nash. Garden fans peppered the ice with water bottles to show their disgust with the zebras. Ottawa leads the series, two games to one.

It had been more than 1,000 days since the last Stanley Cup tournament game at the Garden and this is not the way we visualized the Bruins’ return to the playoffs. All three games in this series have been decided by one goal, two in overtime, but it feels like the Senators have the Bruins’ number. Going back to last season, Ottawa has beaten Boston eight times in nine games. At this moment, it’s hard to remember that the Bruins had a 1-0 series lead and a 3-1 lead in the third period of Game 2 before they folded in the final minutes.

When it was suggested by a reporter that the call must have been “demoralizing,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said, “I agree with you, 100 percent.

“Very demoralizing. Demoralizing and disappointing. But they called it. Once they called it, it’s our job to kill it.’’

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Watch the penalty call in OT in the highlight package below...

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