Fired-up Bruins bury Maple Leafs in standings with latest win Via sunhornby
The Tampa Bay Lightning are the more immediate threat, five points back of Toronto with four games in hand, with home-ice advantage about the only thing to be determined. It would be a repeat of last spring’s first-round series, won by the Bolts.
In its first chance against the NHL’s best penalty killers, Toronto was a minute into its advantage when a retreating Mitch Marner was knocked off the puck behind his net and Boston pounced with the Forbort goal. Marner atoned with Grzelcyk in the box for an elbow on Alex Kerfoot, taking a long Samsonov feed for his 19We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
This was the last game before the break, where Marner will be representing the Leafs this weekend in Sunrise, Fla., on the same division team as Pastrnak and Ullmark. Auston Matthews was also selected but his knee sprain will prevent his participation with Aleksander Barkov of the host Panthers taking his place. Samsonov can use some rest, too, used exclusively with partner Matt Murray’s injury.
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