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The Bruins have their backs against the wall trailing the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference first round heading into Game 6 on the road Sunday. A mix of older players who’ve on the Stanley Cup and younger players that are in the first or second Stanley Cup playoffs run, it...

Trying to find someone not employed by the NHL or the Toronto Maple Leafs that agrees with the ruling that Auston Matthews’ goal Friday against the Bruins wasn’t goaltender interference has been Whitey Bulger-style manhunt. Brian Burke, now an analyst for Sportsnet , once was the president and...

Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand haven't been bad in the Bruins ' first-round series against the Maple Leafs. They just haven't been great. And if the Bruins are going to go to Toronto and win Game 6 and then come back home and win a decisive Game 7, they're going to need those two to be great...

The most controversial play of the series played out on Friday night when the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 to take a 3-2 series lead. The Maple Leafs came out on the right end; the Bruins on the wrong end. With 11 minutes gone in the third period, Auston Matthews one-timed a slap...

It looked like this one was going to go all night. And then came the 8:27 mark of the third period when the Boston Bruins had their first defensive breakdown -- the first crucial one for either team. An Auston Matthews one-timer for the first goal of the game. Just like we all predicted. Auston...

As far as hockey injuries go, a lung contusion is one of the rarer ones. And you can bet Bruins forward Marcus Johansson would rather than go through that again. “I mean I couldn’t do much for a while, so I mean that obviously is not good,” he told WEEI.com after the Bruins’ morning skate at...

The roof was mere decibels away from blowing off Scotiabank Arena on several occasions Wednesday night. The Maple Leafs faithful could feel the chance to go up 3-1 in the series. But the roof never did blow off. Instead, Tuukka Rask fended off any chance of that happening, as he stopped 38 of 42...

Don Cherry is as outspoken as they come, and he had no problem ripping into the Toronto Maple Leafs, as well as other NHL teams, for what he sees as a rise in slew-footing. "Something's been coming into hockey, a long time ago Pavel Bure did it. But look at this here. That's a slew foot. This is a...

The Bruins nearly let a 5-2 third-period lead slip away, but held on for a 6-4 win over the Maple Leafs on the road Wednesday night to even the best-of-seven series at 2-2. David Pastrnak, who had been having a quiet series, came to life and scored twice, while Brad Marchand had a goal and two...

The win-one-lose-one pattern of this series doesn’t favor the Bruins in the long run, but for now they’ll take it. For the second time in the Eastern Conference first round the Bruins responded to a defeat with a series-tying victory, this time taking Game 4 at Toronto 6-4 on Wednesday. The Bruins...