Once again, the Boston Bruins didn’t make things easy on themselves during their seven-game series with the Toronto Maple Leafs. But this time, they overcame a pair of flat outings in Games 5 and 6 and recovered in time to down the Leafs in Game 7 for the fifth time in 12 years.
With his job security potentially in limbo, Jim Montgomery needed his team to persevere once more. At the midway point of the third, the Bruins faced a 1-0 deficit after a returning Auston Matthews found William Nylander to capitalize on a Brandon Carlo turnover.