The Boston Bruins Centennial Season came to an abrupt halt on Friday night. A 2-1 loss to Florida eliminated them from the Stanley Cup Playoffs in six games. Gustav Forsling scored with just over ninety seconds left in regulation, and the Bruins were cat-scraped for the second year in a row. Coming off their best performance of the series, the …
You could hear a pin drop in TD Garden. A historic season in which Boston was unquestionably the best team in hockey and seemed destined to lift the Stanley Cup was snuffed out in an instant when Carter Verhaeghe beat Jeremy Swayman 8:35 into overtime to clinch the series for Florida. It was a stunning and painful end for the …
Brad Marchand had the game on his stick. In the dying seconds of regulation, the Bruins’ stalwart winger broke through the Florida defense from center ice with a clean look at goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. Had he scored, not only would the roof of TD Garden blast into space, but he would’ve sent Florida packing for the summer. Instead, Bobrovsky made …
