Game 5: Toronto Maple Leafs @ Boston Bruins game recap video, on April 21, 2018.
On Saturday night in game 5, the Leafs chased Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask out of the game, once had a 4-1 lead and eventually won 4-3 to bring the series to 3-2 Bruins.
Quick game summary
In the first period, at 6:36, Leafs Connor Brown scored, giving the Leafs a 1-0 lead. At 10:12, Leafs Andreas Johnsson scored, giving the Leafs a 2-0 lead.
In the second period, at 9:45, Bruins David Backes scored his 2nd goal of the playoffs, a power-play goal, cutting the Leafs lead to 2-1. At 10:36, Leafs Tyler Bozak scored, giving the Leafs a 3-1 lead. At 11:55, Leafs James van Riemsdyk scored a power-play goal, giving the Leafs a 4-1 lead. At 17:18, Bruins Sean Kuraly scored his 2nd goal of the playoffs, cutting the Leafs lead to 4-2.
In the third period, at 5:56, Bruins Noel Acciari scored his 1st goal of the playoffs, cutting the Leafs lead to 4-3.
Game notes
Tuukka Rask started in net and made 9 saves on 13 shots in 31:55 of ice time. Anton Khudobin came in and replaced Rask in the second period, and stopped all 8 shots he faced.
The Bruins led the game with a 53% faceoff percentage and in shots 45-21. The Leafs led the game in blocked shots 22-8. Both teams had 28 hits. The Bruins went 1-for-6 on the power-play while the Leafs went 1-for-1.
David Pastrnak led the Bruins with 10 shots each. Torey Krug led the Bruins with 5 hits. Torey Krug and Charlie McAvoy led the Bruins with 2 blocked shots each.
Ryan Donato, Brian Gionta, Tommy Wingels, Brandon Carlo and Nick Holden were scratched for the Bruins.
Three stars of the game
1) Leafs goalie Frederik Andersen
2) Bruins forward Noel Acciari
3) Leafs forward James van Riemsdyk
Onto the next one
The Bruins now lead the playoff series 3-2. Game 6 is in Toronto, on Monday, at 7pm ET.
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