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The series will move to Toronto for the next two games with the reeling Maple Leafs left to try to regain their confidence for Game 3 on Monday night at the Air Canada Centre.
“You work all season to build that confidence,” Maple Leafs center Tyler Bozak said Sunday. “Obviously, the first two games didn’t go as planned. You know you want to go in there, get a split for sure and come home with a win, but now we’re just going to have to go to work at home and get both of these games.”
The Bruins’ top line of Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand has dominated the Maple Leafs.
Pastrnak had three goals and three assists in the 7-3 victory Saturday night as the Bruins took a 2-0 series lead. The 21-year-old right winger became the youngest player in NHL history with a six-point playoff game.
The six points tied Phil Esposito and Rick Middleton for the Bruins’ franchise playoff record.
Pastrnak has nine points through the Bruins’ first two games, which tied Esposito’s NHL and Bruins records for the most points in the opening two games of a playoff series.
“He’s got that confidence,” said Bergeron, the center on the line. “He wants to be the guy. He wants to make those plays. If we don’t have the puck, he hunts it back. … That’s what amazes me with him.
“There’s a lot of skill players that are skilled when they have the puck and when they don’t have it, they don’t necessarily want it as much as this guy right here. So I think he’s taken a tremendous step this year by the way that he plays away from the puck.”
“Terrific and terrific,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said of the way Boston’s top line played at even strength and on the power play.
“I don’t think I can say any more. I mean, you saw it, right? They’re on (Saturday night). Hard to play against. Really hard to play against, and they play a 200-foot game. You can talk about Bergy and Marchy on the PK too while you’re at it.”
Bergeron and Marchand each had four assists on Saturday.
Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock had a brief answer when asked Sunday what needed to be done against the Bruins’ top line.
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The Maple Leafs did have a 33-28 advantage in shots on goal, including a 26-22 edge in shots on goal when the teams were at even strength. Toronto had a 63-39 lead in shot attempts in all situations, 51-30 lead at even strength.
“Any way you look at it, we’re down 0-2 and we haven’t been as good as we’re capable of being,” Babcock said. “When you go right through it from — the way I look at it is, there are so many things we can do better.
“They scored a goal that was offside, we didn’t have the stuff, we didn’t do that. Our penalty kill hasn’t been as good, we’ve left our goalies alone. We’ve had two too-many-men-on-the-ice penalties where a guy is substituting for another guy.
“All those things, when you look at it, it hasn’t gone very good. That’s real disappointing. In saying all that, this is our first game at home in front of our crowd. We’re going to be great.”
Babcock removed starting goaltender Frederik Andersen after Boston’s fourth goal in the first period and replaced him with Curtis McElhinney.
Andersen will be in goal Monday.
“Oh yeah, for sure, 100 percent,” Babcock said. “He’s our guy. The puck was going in and it wasn’t going our way [url=http://www.billscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-josh-allen-jersey]Josh Allen Jersey[/url] , so we got him out. .. we haven’t done a very good job in front of him.
“You’ve got to give your goalie a chance to be good. We haven’t done that. Freddie is our guy and he’ll be back tomorrow.”
Babcock was not certain about the status of center Leo Komarov, who left the game Saturday with a lower-body injury. He was to be examined again Sunday.
“What I’m planning on doing is going without him and then if he shows up, then he shows up,” Babcock said.
The Maple Leafs will be without center Nazem Kadri, who is serving the second game of a three-game suspension for his hit on Boston’s Tommy Wingels during the Bruins’ 5-1 victory in Game 1 on Thursday.
Wingels did not play Saturday because of an undisclosed injury but could return for Game 3. Riley Nash also could return Monday. He has missed seven games with a lacerated ear.
BOSTON — When the Celtics signed Gordon Hayward to a huge free-agent contract and traded for Kyrie Irving in the offseason, they created what was supposed to be Boston’s new Big Three, along with holdover Al Horford.
Hayward was lost for the season with a gruesome leg injury in the first quarter of the first game of the season. Irving was eventually lost for the year, also because of injury.
That left Horford, a big man who draws the ire of some Celtics fans because of how quietly he goes about his business.
His coach loves him. The fans want more.
On Sunday, in the series opener against the Milwaukee Bucks, the fans got more.
“It’s go time,” Horford said after the overtime he helped fuel with 24 points and 12 rebounds in 44:19 of the game’s 53:00. “This is the time where you want to play. You want to be in these games setting the tone. It all starts on the defensive end. I try to set the tone on defense and kind of go from there. I guess it’s doing whatever I can do to help us win. That’s what it’s all about.”
Horford also had four assists, three blocked shots and two steals in the win that gave the second-seeded Celtics a 1-0 series lead heading into Tuesday night’s Game 2 at TD Garden.
All this after TV analyst Charles Barkley ripped Horford’s pedestrian season totals — 14.2 points, 8.6 rebounds and 32 assists, saying [url=http://www.lionscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-tracy-walker-jersey]Tracy Walker Jersey[/url] , “When I was averaging his numbers, they made me retire.”
But with Irving, Hayward, Marcus Smart and rookie Daniel Theis missing, Horford is more important to the offense.
“We’re going to ride Al,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. “He’s been unbelievable in being a facilitator for us all year. He has his moments, because of the way we’re being defended, where he gets to be more of a featured scorer. With where we are now, he’s going to be more of a featured scorer, and facilitate, and guard (Giannis Antetokounmpo), and do everything.
“He’ll probably run our film session (on Monday).”
If Horford is nothing else, his basketball IQ is high and he does many things that don’t show up on the stat sheet. His salary dictates higher numbers, but Stevens knows what he has in this player.
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“We played well and we played hard and that’s what this series is going to be — both teams fighting,” Bucks coach Joe Prunty said.
Eric Bledsoe, making his first playoff appearance since 2014 — as the Bucks look for their first series win since 2000 — was beaten by Terry Rozier for the 3-pointer with half a second left that appeared to have won the game in regulation. Bledsoe scored nine points on 4-of-12 shooting and posted four assists and five turnovers.
He was also unintentionally slighted after the game by Rozier, who scored 17 of his 23 points in the second half and the OT. The Boston guard called Bledsoe “Drew Bledsoe,” an inadvertent homage to the former New England Patriots quarterback.
And Antetokounmpo fouled out guarding Horford, who was 5 of 8 from the floor and hit 13 of his 14 free throws. Antetokounmpo felt like he failed despite 35 points, 13 rebounds, seven assists and three steals.
“I’ve got to do a better job guarding Horford,” Antetokounmpo said. “He’s a really big body, he’s under control, he knows what he’s doing down there. Hopefully in Game 2, I won’t play on my heels. I’ll play more on my toes and be able to defend without fouling, too.”
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