Florida Panthers oust record-setting Bruins 4-3 in OT in Game 7
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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.
The Boston Bruins are done, with a long offseason to think about their failure to capitalize on the greatest regular season in NHL history.
The Florida Panthers are moving on, thrown right into their second-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs beginning Tuesday night.
"Game 7. Overtime win. Against pretty much the best team in regular-season history. It's unreal," Panthers center Aleksander Barkov said after Florida beat Boston 4-3 in OT to eliminate the record-setting Bruins from the playoffs. "For sure it's up there, and it's hard to understand right now. I don't think we need to understand right now. We'll understand later."
Brandon Montour tied it with 1 minute left in regulation, and Carter Verhaeghe scored the game-winner at 8:35 of overtime. The Panthers won three straight after falling behind 3-1 in the best-of-seven series.
Boston, the Presidents' Trophy winners with NHL records of 65 wins and 135 points, had not lost three in a row all season.
"The fact that we were able to do what we did after what they did all year they're an unreal team and the best I've played in my NHL career. The fact that we were able to beat them was crazy," Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk said. "Let's be honest: Nobody in the whole world thought we were going to win that series except for the guys in that room."
Sergei Bobrovsky made 33 saves for Florida, which advanced in the postseason for just the second time since reaching the Stanley Cup Final in 1996. They will face Toronto, which finished off the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday in six games.
