Bruins Fail to End Series, Give Toronto Hope

                                                      (This is how we all felt)

The Bruins were looking to end this series series last night on home ice, while Toronto was on the verge of elimination. It looked like it was the other way around in the first period. The Bruins had many turnovers and lost puck battles, and they were lucky to get out of the first scoreless. They weren't as lucky in the second. Ference couldn't handle a pass, I will say it was a hard pass so he doesn't deserve all the blame, anyways it bounced over his stick to Tyler Bozak and he was able to get a partial breakaway. Even though there was pretty good back pressure, Bozak got it in underneath the arm of Tuukka Rask. Ok, it was a save you would have liked to see him have, but making 20 saves in the first period alone, it could have easily been 2-0 or 3-0 by then so it's really hard to blame him. In the third now, there was a pass off the boards that was going right to Nathan Horton, but he didn't get his stick down on the ice in time (another turnover). Clark MacArthur brought it into the zone and went forehand-backhand and into the back of the net. 2-0 Toronto. Now I don't know if the leafs wore themselves out or what, but they just disappeared in the second half of the third period. I mean the Bruins were just dominating, although not scoring. That was until Zdeno Chara finally got the Bruins on the board to make it 2-1. There was a late delay of game penalty on the Leafs, but the Bruins couldn't convert. They dominated play up until the buzzer with nothing to show for it. The Leafs had tons of blocked shots, and it was just that kind of night for Boston.

The first half of this game is what really hurt the Bruins, they just didn't show up. They were extremely slow coming out of their own end, turnovers, sloppy play, not a good effort. Like I said, they dominated much of the third, and really they started getting better in the final minutes of the second, but it's just too late. You need to come ready to play and Bruins didn't do that. Now I'm nervous because we gave Toronto hope, which is something they didn't have coming into this game the way we played in game 4. Now we are headed back to Toronto in a building that will be rocking. Here's an interesting fact: the Bruins are 6-11 in closeout games since Claude Julien became coach, which was 2007. We have seen a lot of game 7s over the years, haven't we.

~Anthony

P.S. I updated the Red Sox Record and last games and next game played since that hasn't been getting done lately. (Yes I'm talking to you Dj, it takes 20 seconds to do.)

P.S.S. Red Sox closer Joel Hanrahan is undergoing season ending surgery. That's all I'm going to say about it because Dj will probably post. Ok, I'm done, I promise.