For the first time in the last few weeks, the Boston Bruins lost some ground in the Eastern Conference playoff picture.
Quite frankly, the Toronto Maple Leafs kept the Bruins from establishing any ground during Tuesday’s pivotal Atlantic Division matchup at TD Garden.
At one point, the Leafs had another 4-1 lead to work with on Garden ice. The Bruins struggled to provide any pushback in the second period, prompting Toronto to extend their cushion to 6-1 on Auston Matthews’s power-play marker late in the second period and David Kampf’s maker a mere 47 seconds apart.
The Bruins ran into frustrating officiating throughout Tuesday’s tilt.