Leafs looking to shake ghosts of 2013 playoff collapse in rematch with Bruins
Mitch Marner had just turned 16 when the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins tangled in Game 7 of their 2013 first-round playoff series.
Connor Brown — like Marner, a life-long Leafs fan — was 19 and on a family vacation when Toronto scored twice early in the third period to grab what looked like an insurmountable 4-1 lead.
“We were in Dublin,” said Brown, now a Leafs forward. “It was four in the morning, we were watching.”
What the Browns saw was Boston roar back with three goals in the final 11 minutes of regulation at TD Garden before Patrice Bergeron struck again in overtime to send the shell-shocked visitors home in stunned disbelief.