From kristen_shilton: Leafs head to Boston for Game 7 after failing to close out Bruins. MORE:
TORONTO – Somewhere between grabbing an early lead, and a powerful final push to nearly force overtime, the Maple Leafs lost their way on Sunday.
When Sunday’s game began, Toronto looked exactly like the speedy, tight-checking team that downed Boston in Game 5 to put that team's season on life support. The Leafs controlled the pace and kept Boston off their defence, and by halfway through the frame, Morgan Rielly’s point blast through traffic past Tuukka Rask had spotted the Leafs a 1-0 lead.
Near the middle of the second, the Leafs were being outshot 19-6, and had gone more than 14 minutes from the first period on without registering a shot on goal. The same way Boston brought the game to Toronto in the second was reciprocated by the Leafs with a dominant third. Toronto has about 48 hours to correct that if they want to win the franchise’s first playoff series in 15 years. It was just a season ago the script was flipped, and the Leafs were staving off elimination in Game 6 of their first-round series to force a Game 7 in Boston; Toronto led that final game 4-3 in the third period, before losing 7-4.
Toronto went 0-for-2 on the kill Sunday, the second time in three games that Boston has been perfect on the power play. To this point in the series, the Bruins are 7-for-16 on the power play , but have had their best success with the extra man in Toronto , compared to going just 2-for-9 on their home ice.
Rielly’s goal was a long time coming in the series, marking his first in the six games and putting his point total at five, extending his four-game point streak. While so many of his teammates looked stuck in the mud for much of Sunday’s contest, Rielly consistently had good jump and was one of the few bright spots for Toronto through a tenuous first 40 minutes.
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