Technically, Otawa senators remaining on the verge of elimination when they host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday in the Eastern Conference on Thursday.
However, it is safe to say that there is a lot of pressure on Maple Leafs, which won the first three games in the top seven series.
Otawa expanded the series on Tuesday thanks to his 4-0 win in Toronto. Brady Tkachuk and Tim Stutzle scored empty net goals and added two assists. The couple helped Thomas Chabot’s second -term target, and Dylan Cozens added a short -term installment in the middle of the third.
If they win the game 6, the senators will try to be the fifth team of NHL history, and after losing the first three games, 2014 Los Angeles Kings to win a Playoff series. If this, he also contributes to the infamous post -infamous problems of Ontario’s other team.
While Maple Leafs won only once in the last 14 chance. Franchisee has not won a Game 7 since April 20, 2004, when they defeated the senators 4-1 in order to win the Ontario War and reach the second round.
The only time Maple Leafs has been progressing in playoffs since then was 2023. In the second round, they won a series of first rounds against Tampa Bay Lightning.
Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube, the first year, accepted the team’s problems after the season while talking to journalists on Wednesday, but tried to neutralize the situation.
“In the playoffs, I heard more noise and many past things are coming to the point,” he said. “Everything is fine. Part of everything. The only pressure they have is one of their teammates, I think.”
Berube added that Toronto would consider making some line changes, but he was also resistant to too much adjustment.
Maple Leafs’ balanced attack attack passed to the end of the season. Mitch Marner leads the team with seven points (a goal, six assists), while William Nylander and Austton Matthews have six goals and five assistants. John Tavares and Matthew Knies scored three goals.
Toronto has five power games goals in the series, but a pair of short hand signs left.
Although Maple Leafs’ 3-0 series leader, two of these wins made overtime. Otawa won in the third flat game of the series that went beyond the arrangement and avoided elimination at the game 4.
Senators goalkeeper Linus Ullmark entered the series with a shaky playoff history. However, after scored a dozen goals in 65 shots in the first three games, Netminder, a 2023 meter award -winning, allowed only three out of the last 63 shots to cross him. Tuesday’s win was the closure of the first season.
“You could see the game production as our team,” Ottawa coach Travis Green said on Tuesday. He said. “I felt you’d play a great game and you know, you could see you feel more comfortable.”
If Otawa wins the third flat, Game 7 will be in Toronto on Saturday.
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