On a scale of Game 7 wins, the Bruins’ 5-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday night at TD Garden registers closer to the “simply satisfying’’ end of the range than it does the “Triple Bergeron’’ status.
The Triple Bergeron is the state of sports euphoria that engulfed Bruins fans during a previous Game 7 victory this decade, one that also left the Leafs — who have not won a Stanley Cup since 1967 — piled in their annual heap of devastation.
In a Game 7 six postseasons ago, the Bruins overcame a 4-1 deficit midway through the third period, eventually defeating the Leafs on Patrice Bergeron’s overtime winner.