The Boston Bruins missed their chance to put an end to their quarterfinal playoff series last night as the Toronto Maple Leafs won at the TD Garden.
The Maple Leafs beat the Bruins 2-1 in Boston, forcing the Bruins to return to Toronto for Game 6 on Sunday.
Toronto seemed to be in control of the game until they went 2-0 ahead in the third period, and from that point on Boston started to slowly turn thing around, but could not score again to send the game into overtime.
"This is something we have to take the blame for. It's of our own doing," Bruins Coach Claude Julien told reporters, according to the Associated Press. "They were a desperate team. They showed it at the beginning of the game and we were down 2-0 and all of a sudden we became the desperate team ... If there's anything they have to understand from this, it's that we need to play three periods like we did in the third if we expect to close this off."
"Every once in a while the hockey gods will take care of the people that deserve it," he said. "Obviously they played 40 strong minutes and they deserved to win tonight. We have to lick our wounds and get ready for the next game."
Game 7, if needed, would be Monday in Boston.
"I'm sure that we've poked the Bruins," said Leafs coach Randy Carlyle. "They're going to be a very desperate hockey club come Sunday night and we better be equally as desperate."
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