The game marked the return of Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron, who missed the first four games of the series after suffering an upper-body injury in the team's regular-season finale at Montreal on April 13. He found Bennett in the slot for his third goal of the playoffs. The goalie saved the initial shot but Marchand's second effort knotted the game at 1-1.īut with 1:08 left in the second period, Florida struck again thanks to Verhaeghe. With Sam Bennett in the box for holding, defenseman Charlie McAvoy found Brad Marchand alone in front of Sergei Bobrovsky. The Bruins tied the game on the power play at 2:27 of the second period. "For us to come out with the start we did speaks a lot about our team, our preparation and our belief in each other," Tkachuk said. He sent a pass from behind the goal line to a cutting Anthony Duclair, who smacked it down to the ice and into the net. Forward Tyler Bertuzzi sent the puck in front of his own net, where it was intercepted by Verhaeghe. The Panthers took the lead at 8:26 of the first period on another uncharacteristic turnover by Boston. I don't know why, but the last two games at home we don't manage the ice or manage the puck, it's one of the two," Montgomery said. The Panthers' other win in the series was a 6-3 victory at TD Garden in Game 2. We just had a mishandle on our goalie/defenseman communication on the puck and it ended up getting jacked into our net," Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. We tried to move the puck over to the defenseman but we had made a change so the puck went all the way down. "I thought we had really good offensive zone pressure. Tkachuk collected the puck and, with Ullmark on his back, maneuvered around the Bruins defenders to score the game winner. Goalie Linus Ullmark had a miscommunication with his defenseman and turned the puck over to Florida's Carter Verhaeghe, whose quick shot Ullmark kicked to the slot. The Bruins failed to close out the series due to a few uncharacteristic miscues, including on the game-winning goal in overtime. Florida was the second wild-card team in the East. So it's up to us to see you guys back here in a few days."īoston entered the postseason as the top seed in the Eastern Conference after setting new NHL records for wins (65) and points (135) in a single season. We know there can't possibly be a Game 7 in their mind right now, and everybody here in Boston's minds.
Coming here, it just seemed like the series was over before the game even started. "I don't think anybody really gave us a chance after losing two games in a row at home. "We were supposed to get swept this series, right? Everyone was saying," said Tkachuk, who had two points in the win. Matthew Tkachuk's goal at 6:05 of overtime gave new life to the Panthers, who had dropped consecutive games at home - games in which Boston was without its top two centers - to fall behind 1-3 in the best-of-seven series. The Florida Panthers stunned the Boston Bruins with a 4-3 overtime win in Wednesday's Game 5, defiantly avoiding what could have been the first elimination of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Panthers push Bruins to Game 6 on Matthew Tkachuk's OT goal
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