Florida Panthers Upset Record-Setting Boston Bruins
These Boston Bruins have not been accustomed to losing streaks.
They tore through the N.H.L. during the regular season, winning 65 games, a single-season record; claiming the Presidents’ Trophy with a league-high of 135 points, 22 points clear of every other team; and outscoring their opponents by 128 goals.
But after all that winning, a three-game losing streak, just their second of the season, came at an inopportune time. The Florida Panthers defeated the Bruins, 4-3, in overtime of Game 7 of their first-round playoff series on Sunday night in Boston to complete a rare comeback from a 3-1 series deficit. And they did so against some of the most formidable opposition in the league’s 106-year history: The Bruins had 43 more points than the Panthers did in the regular season.
Boston had been so dominant that on Saturday night, after Toronto beat Tampa Bay to win a postseason series for the first time since 2004, some fans of the Maple Leafs gathered outside the team’s arena and chanted, “We want Florida.”
They got their wish.
Carter Verhaeghe, a member of Tampa Bay’s 2020 championship team, clinched the series with a left-handed shot from the right face-off dot through a screen by Matthew Tkachuk.
Source: The New York Times
