from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
The Bruins, master of the NHL’s regular-season class, flunked puck-management school Friday night in Sunrise, Fla., and now they’ll take their failing hands into a decisive Game 7 Sunday at the Garden vs. the Panthers.
The usually sure-handed Bruins, after finally moving out to a 5-4 lead in the third, twice failed to move the puck out of their own end, resulting in goals by Matthew Tkachuk and Eetu Luostarinen that proved the gateway to Florida’s 7-5 victory.
The first of those strikes, Tkachuk canning the 5-5 equalizer at 10:49, had Jim Montgomery as mad as he’s been all season behind the Black and Gold bench. His anger clearly was directed at his charges, the first-year Boston coach irate his club could not move the puck out of the zone and preserve the lead.
Only 3:33 later, Luostarinen struck for the game-winner, the happy recipient of a Connor Clifton bank pass off the left wall that, once again, failed to get out of the zone. Luostarinen curled in from high in the zone and nailed the winner by Linus Ullmark.
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We. Get. A. Game. Seven! Yesssss!!!
Even if Florida loses, big credit to them for handing Boston 3 L's.
Agree completely. Between that and the Colorado series, whos complaining?
As I mentioned previously, the President's Trophy turns out to be a jinx many times.
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