Bruins were a borderline team that reached its limits
Pack away the skates and put away the Zamboni, the Bruins’ season is over, and now officially so is winter in Boston.
Ottawa’s Clarke MacArthur, who drew a holding penalty on David Pastrnak to give Ottawa an overtime man-advantage, ended it with 6 minutes 30 seconds gone by in OT, banging a power-play goal past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask. That gave the Senators a 3-2 overtime win at TD Garden on Sunday and a decisive fourth victory in this best-of-seven Eastern Conference playoff series.
The Bruins’ season on the brink finally reached its limit, just like their talent. The Bruins should feel no shame. A borderline playoff team that squeaked into the postseason by a point, they met their demise in a borderline series that could have swung either way. All six games were decided by a single goal, and four of them required overtime. The return of playoff hockey to the Hub for the first time since 2014 was fun while it lasted. At least the anti-Claude Julien crowd can take solace in the fact that the Bruins lasted one day longer in the Stanley Cup playoffs than their former coach and his hated Montreal Canadiens.
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