Maple Leafs vs Bruins

After beating top seed Florida on the weekend, the Maple Leafs went into Boston and blazed the home side with a 6-4 victory that was as convincing as it was ...

“So, it was a good job by our guys to make the game that way and then just continue to play.” “We're looking forward to the next game,” Kerfoot said. “He's a big part of our team. As the Leafs pulled away with a 6-1 lead, the Bruins got chippy. “Certainly, these are the types of games where you want to be great,” Keefe said. “I think we iced the puck probably more than... And just his attitude and his enthusiasm in the locker room every day seeing him, it's good,” Matthews says. Kicking the week off with consecutive wins over Florida and Boston sends a memo to their fellow Atlantic Division rivals. Managed a couple of strong pushes that they had. A real patient game, and we took advantage of the chances we did get.” "We weren't ready to play. It was fun.

The Maple Leafs will look to ride the momentum of an impressive 5-2 win over the Atlantic Division leader into tonight's game against the Atlantic ...

You are going to sacrifice some offense because of the standard we have set and the accountability. There are always hiccups in a season with different areas of your game, but in general, we have harped on that for a long time. What we are looking for from the fourth line is for it to be a line that can win shifts for us, generate momentum, spend time in the other team’s end, and give us energy, physicality, and presence. Coming off of the two games we played, even though we didn’t get the result in Montreal, I liked a lot of the things that we did there. In terms of the identity itself, it depends on who is in, who is out, and what that looks like. We carried that over against a very dynamic offensive team in Florida. We will get put to the test again tonight on that. I am sure they have a lot of confidence they can go to that at any time, but the Pastrnak line has been really good here of late as well. No matter who you are on the ice against, that is a big thing for us. A player like Nick has come in here, and Blackwell is new and fresh to the group. At the end of the day, our focus is on scoring goals. We have to be mindful of it tonight. That has taken a turn for the better in the last week with the winning starts from Petr Mrazek against New Jersey and Florida, which has earned him the start in a tough building tonight against the Leafs‘ biggest rival of the past 10 years.

The Toronto Maple Leafs will visit the not-so-friendly confines of TD Garden on Tuesday for the first time since October 2019 to battle the Boston Bru...

The Maple Leafs, meanwhile, have allowed 53 first-period goals this season and have gone under this total in four of their last five outings. What has made the Bruins a true threat has been the combination of offensive and defensive success. The Bruins have also been successful at home in recent games. Toronto hasn’t had quite the same amount of success recently. Boston has won four consecutive games and 14 of its last 17 contests. Their close proximity in the standings should keep the hatred alive and well, though, despite the lack of head-to-head action.

Patrice Bergeron had a maintenance day this morning, but is expected for tonight's game.

Defensive pairings will remain the same tonight, but could get switched up later this week to get the pairing of Josh Brown and Mike Reilly into a game. Swayman gets the start Jeremy Swayman gets the start between the pipes.

Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Petr Mrazek was lifted from Tuesday's game against the Boston Bruins with an apparent lower-body injury.

Both Holl and Lyubushkin had to be helped off the ice by trainers and did not return to the ice after their injuries. All-star starter Jack Campbell has been out of the lineup since early March with a rib injury but is travelling and practicing with the team. He skated off the ice on his own power but appeared to be limping as he made his way to the locker room.

This is only the second of three games between the two teams in the regular season, which I thought was odd considering this is an inter-divisional rivalry. The ...

His team has found a way to balance their top six with Jake DeBrusk, Taylor Hall, and Erik Haula joining the Big Three. The bottom six doesn’t provide any offense, but they can at least play their opponents to even. However, the Toronto Marlies are out west right now, so it’s possible Clifford stayed back the whole time and it was easier to bring him up than fly Steeves over from Abbotsford where the team is now. There’s a lot of good research into whether shooting percentage can give a good indicator for pre-shot movement on the power play, so the Leafs having a strong one probably says they have Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner on their top unit. The big difference is the Leafs shooting ability and the Leafs lack of goaltending. So they’re high volume, low quality relative to the Leafs. On special teams, I rated the stats down to what they would be every two minutes, or the length of a standard power play. I wanted to do this to show the impact special teams really has than inflate it by a factor of 30. The first part of 2022 did a number on the Leafs goaltending. That means they’re getting to the front of the net a lot. The Leafs also have the edge in goal differential, which is the sixth tiebreaker. This is only the second of three games between the two teams in the regular season, which I thought was odd considering this is an inter-divisional rivalry. The Leafs have the advantage offensively when it comes to their quality of chances.

Auston Matthews scored his league-leading 49th goal and had an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs ended Boston's four-game winning streak with a 6-4 victory ...

Kerfoot picked up an assist on the goal and was levelled by Connor Clifton well after the play as he skated to celebrate with his teammates. They have a lot of skill and they can capitalize. The game was close early as Blackwell and Pastrnak scored less than a minute apart. "If all those things don't happen, you need your goaltender to bail you out then and that didn't happen, either," Cassidy said. John Tavares added two assists and Erik Kallgren had 23 saves after entering in the first period, replacing Petr Mrazek, who left with a groin injury. Colin Blackwell scored his first goal since joining Toronto in a trade at the deadline.

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This line could match up well against a Toronto third line that will feature the defensiveness of William Nylander. At even money for a point on Coyle, sign us up. Mrazek is a giant question mark for this total and a big reason we leaned on the Over 6. Both clubs also have a power play and penalty kill that rank in the Top 10 in each. The Leafs are one of the best teams in hockey (if they can get saves) and have only been underdogs three times all season. Stopping Matthews and the first line might be impossible, but the Bruins and their 2.26 GAA since Valentine’s Day will prove a big test. Boston has been one of the most overvalued teams on the ML all season as they are -$1,506 on ML$ with $100 bets. Mrazek held the Panthers to two goals on 36 shots Sunday and left the ice to a standing ovation. The Bruins are gaining steam on the ML as they opened at -125 and have moved 25 points to -150. The Bruins are getting scoring up and down the lineup and could possibly face Petr Mrazek, but has the steam gone too far? The Leafs played a pair of solid games over the weekend but skated away with just two points. These two teams have not met since November when the Leafs won 5-2 as -125 home favorites with a total of 5.5. With one point separating Tampa, Boston, and Toronto in the Atlantic, tonight’s outcome will have a big effect on the standings.

The Boston Bruins have won 14 of their last 17 games, but face a big challenge against Toronto Maple Leafs at the TD Garden Tuesday night.

This will be the toughest challenge facing the Black and Gold since Jan. 1 and it is going to be interesting to see how the Bruins respond against one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference. This game should be seen as a measuring stick for the Black and Gold against a team that could easily come out of the Eastern Conference in the postseason. In the big picture, the Bruins were a frustrated team that lost that night and they looked like a team looking for their identity. Scott has been a sports writer for 25 years for different sites and daily newspapers. “We haven’t talked a lot at all about the standings, other than moving up in them as the year went on. The Bruins are a different team than the one that the Maple Leafs played back in November and they are playing with a lot more confidence. Charlie McAvoy has taken over the role as the leader of the blue line, while Matt Grzelcyk and Brandon Carlo are forming a good second pair. On defense, Lindholm in his first two games as a Bruin has looked like the missing piece that was missing the last couple of seasons since Torey Krug left in free agency in October of 2020 for the St. Louis Blues. “It’s a division rival and it does matter a little more in the standings because of where we are,” Cassidy said. They have won 14 of their last 17, with their 41st victory coming Saturday afternoon in a dominating 6-3 win over the New York Islanders. He is making a serious case for the Hart Trophy this season. When the two teams played their first game on Nov. 6 at Scotiabank Arena, Toronto won 5-2 and did so in a fairly easy fashion.

The standings are tight — especially in the Eastern Conference — and there are some fantastic possibilities on the table for Round 1 series.

But they also lost in four games to Colorado last season in Round 1 and are now hitting a bump at the wrong time again. But this is also a team for whom the regular season is just a preamble to a very important post-season. The Blues are a team you probably don't want to draw in Round 1. This one in Boston should have a playoff atmosphere to it and will be a test for the Leafs especially. For all their potential greatness, the Avs haven't gotten beyond the second round with this core, which will have only two more shots (this season and next) with Nathan MacKinnon making a bargain $6.4 million against the cap. Lost in the wilderness and on the brink of some monumental change after a disastrous time in the temporary North Division, we forgot that Calgary was Canada's best team from the November 2019 firing of Bill Peters until the league hit pause in March 2020. But Weegar is ninth in even-strength scoring among all NHL defencemen this season and it's not all because of situation. This season, the points haven't yet come since Ekblad was knocked out on March 18, but Weegar has logged over 25 minutes in each of the three games since and all his underlying measures are similarly impressive. First in save percentage (.936), goals saved above average (37.44), and third in GAA (2.11) Shesterkin has been New York's most important player — and that's saying something given they have Chris Kreider at 44 goals, Adam Fox (third in defenceman scoring) and Artemi Panarin (top 15 in league scoring). In the first five months of the season, Shesterkin allowed four or more goals in a game just three times, a great run of consistency. But now Shesterkin has allowed four goals or more in three of his past six starts, all of them happening on the road. The standings are tight — especially in the Eastern Conference — and there are some fantastic possibilities on the table for Round 1 series. It was an interesting question posed and explored last week by our own Justin Bourne: would the Maple Leafs have a better chance against Boston or Tampa Bay in Round 1?