It’s been an emotional, heart-wrenching, and inspiring season for the Boston Bruins, who are one win away from the Stanley Cup Finals. You may ask yourself, well, how did we get here?
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But as the city dealt with mammoth challenges, the Bruins ended the season by losing four of the six games that followed.
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The playoffs started strong. David Krejci’s overtime score in Game 4 of Boston’s opening-round tilt against Toronto gave the team a 3-1 series lead.
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But then the Maple Leafs used some sort of light-refracting sorcery to take the next two games and tie the series at 3-3.
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… where they won with this goal 6:05 into the extra session.
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And from that moment on, the Bruins have been a nearly unstoppable force for hockey.
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The New York Rangers? Boston barely broke a sweat, winning the series in five games.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have arguably been an easier foe thus far, as Boston has outscored them 11-2 on the way to winning the first three games of the series.
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As in Game 7 against Toronto, Patrice Bergeron scored the OT winner in a tremendous Game 3 against Pittsburgh.
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Historically speaking, the Bruins have a 62.6% chance of winning tonight’s Game 4 and going to the Stanley Cup Finals. (Their chances of winning the series at any point? 98.3%.)
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Awaiting Boston in the finals would be either the Chicago Blackhawks or Los Angeles Kings. (Does it matter? MAYBE NOT.)
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