And likely beyond for a few more days.
With the Bruins up 3 games to one 1, the first buzz was the status of Patrice Bergeron for Game 5.
“We will make that decision after warm-up,” Bruce Cassidy said after practice, “but it is looking good.” So was the chance that Boston would close out the series when Cassidy affirmed a few hours later that Bergeron would start.
Later Saturday afternoon, the Lightning punched their ticket to Round 2 with a 3-1 win over New Jersey to end that series and await the B’s-Leafs winner.
With Nazem Kadri back after a three-game suspension for his Game 1 hit on Tommy Wingels, Toronto coach Mike Babcock’s philosophy regarding the must-win Game 5 was fairly simple: “We have to create more offense.