Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Boston Bruins 4/25/18, Prediction & Odds

The Leafs playoff game against the Boston Bruins will be set up on the other side of Maple Leaf Square, at York St. and Bremner Boulevard.

The Maple Leafs/Bruins series is the only first round playoff series to go the full seven games.

Babcock on Auston Matthews: “I’m assuming that he thought he was going to come tonight and dominate the game; that’s what I thought”.

“We’re sending all our love“, said Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner, who scored the tiebreaking goal and added an assist in Toronto’s 3-1 win. Secondary scoring has been a strength for the B’s most of the year but other than rookie Jake DeBrusk and David Krejci, few of their other forwards have really produced in this series. He posted an.880 save percentage in Games 1 to 4 but has stopped 74 of 78 shots for a.949 SP in Toronto’s Game 5 and 6 victories.

“What’s interesting is you go through, we’re kind of like in the same spot we were last year during the first round [against Washington], and yet our team’s way better than last year”, said Babcock.

Game 7 is Wednesday in Boston, with the victor taking on Tampa Bay in the next round. We got three goals. Through 88 regular season outings, 44 of the team’s games have gone under the total, while 39 have gone over and just five have pushed. “Here we are, I think our guys are feeling good and we have an opportunity”. That’s right, the Bruins had more shots blocked and missed (39) than they had on net (33). But mistakes crept in at the worst time and the opportunistic Leafs – playing for a city in healing after a horrific incident that killed nine on Monday – capitalized on their chances for the second straight game en route to a 3-1 win. Maybe he didn’t churn out the absolute best campaign every time, but in winning at least 41 games and generating at least a.923 save percentage from 2014-15 to 2016-17, Holtby put in elite work like clockwork for the Washington Capitals.

Consider: There have been 194 different players to pull on a Leafs sweater since a Mats Sundin-led team beat Ottawa in a seven-game series back in 2004.

Toronto didn’t take long to react to such a quick start, just 35 seconds to be exact.

After the faceoff, Rask came out to play a puck and dished it to Chara with little pressure. Then, Mitch Marner scored the eventual victor from in the slot at 13:25 on a spin-around play.

The B’s had their chances to tie it, but couldn’t. Even with the tough end of the season, all they had to do was win their final game of the season versus the eliminated Florida Panthers and they came out flat.

“It’s Game 7”, said Cassidy.

The Bruins were eliminated in a Game 7 each of Julien’s first three seasons before they learned how to win those do-or-die games and won three on their way to the 2011 Stanley Cup championship.