#Carter Verhaeghe

#Carter Verhaeghe

The Toronto Maple Leafs were aggressive from the get-go in Game 1, as were the Florida Panthers, who beat the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Scotiabank Arena by a score of 4-2.This game had all the ingredients of a good game played by both teams, as the hits were high, and the action was fast-paced at both ends of the ice.

Even the Panthers' most outspokenly confident player admitted to experiencing a little doubt Sunday night at TD Garden.But once Florida gave itself new life in Game 7 of its first-round Stanley Cup playoffs series with Boston, it seems like everyone on the visitors' bench knew what was going to happen in sudden death.

After Florida pulled off the improbable Sunday night, Matthew Tkachuk called his team's first-round Stanley Cup playoffs win over the Bruins the "biggest upset in NHL history, to every single person other than the Panthers."But for a moment in Game 7, even the ever-confident Florida star thought about the possibility of the Cats' season coming to an end.

This outcome was always in the cards.We talked about it on the day the Boston Bruins, the best team in the history of hockey, started their Stanley Cup playoff run.The Bruins had won more games and posted more points than any team ever, but hockey is especially cruel about pulling up drawbridges on its best teams.

The Florida Panthers did the unthinkable on Sunday night when they defeated the Boston Bruins in overtime of Game 7.
Coming into this first-round matchup, no one outside of Sunrise, Florida thought that the Panthers, the second wild card team in the Eastern Conference, would take down the best team in NHL regular season history.

Bruins The Panthers tied the game with a minute left in regulation before winning in overtime.BOSTON (AP) - Brandon Montour tied it with 1 minute left in regulation, and Carter Verhaeghe scored the game-winner at 8:35 of overtime to lead the Florida Panthers to a 4-3 Game 7 victory on Sunday night and eliminate the record-setting Boston Bruins from the playoffs.

By my measure, and by a lot of other more important folks' measures, the Bruins' regular season was the best in NHL history.Their record surpassed what anyone else has done in 82 games, namely the 1995-96 Red Wings and 2018-19 Lightning.And even if you want to bring in the 1976-77 Canadiens, who hold the record for fewest losses and most regulation wins (because they didn't play overtime back then), the fact that the NHL (and its then-rival WHA) was very much just a North American league at the time makes that accomplishment slightly less definitive.

BOSTON - After the Boston Bruins went with Linus Ullmark for the first six games of their series against the Florida Panthers, they decided to turn the net over to Jeremy Swayman for an immense Game 7.
The Bruins choosing to go with Swayman over Ullmark didn't leave any hard feelings between the two netminders who have shared goaltending duties throughout the season.

The Bruins opened training camp in mid-September, seven and a half months ago.There were so many question marks and plenty of doubt about what would become of the 2022-23 season.What transpired between then and Sunday night was truly historic, a record-setting regular season that exceeded every single expectation placed on the group.

The 2022-23 Boston Bruins were the greatest team in regular season history.The Bruins won a league-record 65 games and posted a league-record 135 points, winning the Presidents' Trophy by a whopping 22 points.They only lost seven games at home all season.But all those team stats didn't matter as the Bruins faced off against a very game Florida Panthers team in the first round of the playoffs.

The Boston Bruins were eliminated from the postseason after falling 4-3 to the Florida Panthers in overtime at the TD Garden in Game 7 of the first round of the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs.Jeremy Swayman entered the game cold, but gave the Bruins a fighting chance tonight.He made some huge saves and looked composed.

Just the facts
When: Tonight, 6:30 PM
Where: TD Garden - Boston, MA
How to follow: NESN, TNT, CBC, TVAS, SN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
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Matthew Tkachuk: 5G-5A-10PTS; Carter Verhaeghe: 1G-5A-6PTS; Brandon Montour: 3G-3A-6PTS
Sergei Bobrovsky: 2-1-0, .883save percentage, 4.40 GAA


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Well friends, it all comes down to tonight.