The Boston Bruins will look to finish off the Toronto Maple Leafs when the two sides meet in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
The Bruins blew a chance to end their series on home ice with a dismal third period in a 2-1 loss to the Maple Leafs. Now the team will look to win its third match in Toronto this series. Meanwhile, the Leafs, who have succeeded at the TD Garden in Boston, will look to put up their first playoff home win at the Air Canada Centre since 2004.
The Bruins have succeeded on the strength of their top line of Nathan Horton, David Krejci, and Milan Lucic. However, Brad Marchand and Tyler Seguin, both scoring leaders in the regular season, have been shutout throughout the series.
"I haven't denied the fact that [Marchand] and that line haven't been as good," Boston coach Claude Julien said. "Certainly [there are] things that we deal with internally and dealt with those guys internally. Certainly, I'm not going to elaborate on them, specifically, publicly; that's not my style. I'm seeing the same thing you guys are. That's the case, a lot of those things aren't happening right now. Those things have to happen. We're doing some work with those guys to help them find those parts of their game and you hope that that's going to be the case [Sunday]."
The Leafs got production from Tyler Bozak and Clark MacArthur in Game 5 and hope that more players continue to chip in offensively.
"It was relieving for sure," Bozak said. "I hadn't scored yet in this series, so in a big game it was nice to get us on the board. And the boys killed a huge [penalty] for me at the end of the game, so it was nice all around."
Prediction: Boston ends the series with a 3-2 win.
Start Time: 7:30 PM EST
TV: TV: CBC, RDS, NESN
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