After a year, the Boston hockey players will again face the decisive seventh game of the 1st round of the playoffs. And Bruins players and fans are certainly hoping that night against Toronto doesn’t turn out the same way it did last year against Florida.
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3:42 p.m May 4, 2024
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David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand | Source: Profimedia
A year ago, Florida managed to turn the series with favored Boston from 1:3 to games, despite the fact that the seventh was played on the ice of the Bruins.
Hear what the Boston coach has to say ahead of Game 7 of the series against Toronto
And so far, it looks like the players with the B on their chest can repeat the traumatic experience – they led 3:1 again in the series with Toronto, but now the decisive seventh game is here in Boston’s TD Garden.
For the Bruins to go well this time around, according to coach Jim Montgomery, one player needs to improve.
“Your best players have to be the best. The effort is there, but needs to add some great moments in key moments. Marchand can handle it, Pasta must add,” Boston’s coach commented on David Pastrňák’s form.
The words of the coach are also confirmed by the numbers – in the last two losses, the Czech forward did not score, did not get chances, shoots far less than in the regular season, and in six games the opponents managed to hit him cleanly twenty-four times.
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He is also criticized by the Boston media for this. “He’s getting soda, he’s slow. Yes, Toronto is doing a good job on him, but the question is whether David Pastrnak can step out of his shadow. History shows us not. He regularly disappears in the playoffs and in Game 7, too, so we shouldn’t be surprised,” Christian Arcand of Boston radio station WEEI told Pastrňák.
It is true that Pastrňák has lost seven games in the last three games, in which he scored a total of only two points. On the other hand – history plays even more against Toronto.
And the forward of the Canadian team, William Nylander, knows it too. “I don’t know if we’ve ever won a game seven before, so it’s going to be a big test,” said Toronto’s Swedish forward.
Although they have won a total of 12 decisive matches in the past, the last time they did it was twenty years ago. Since then, the Maple Leafs have failed to win the key battle five times, three times with Boston.
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