The Boston Bruins can restore parity by being the Boston Bruins.
NESN’s Jack Edwards urged the Bruins to play as bodily as potential Wednesday evening in Game four of their first-round NHL playoff sequence in opposition to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Edwards supplied this well timed recommendation to the B’s throughout his look on WAAF’s “Hill-Man Morning Show.”
“As much as we want to put it all on the Bruins and say ‘it’s up to them,’ there are two teams out there playing and they’re both trying to win,” Edwards stated. “Toronto did a stupendous job of enjoying to its type, which is accelerating by the impartial zone and pouring into the Boston finish with velocity and choices.
The Maple Leafs lead the sequence 2-1, and Edwards believes they’ll push the Bruins to the brink of elimination if Boston shies away from its long-held technique.
“If the Bruins can continue to play the body with intensity and make better decisions than they made a couple of nights ago (in Game 3), then I think we’re in for a really thrilling game …,” he stated.
“… When you’re facing a prospect of going down three games to whatever in a series, you don’t want your opponent to get there. You’ve got to play to your identity, and the Bruins’ identity is to put the body on anybody who dares touch the puck. From that all good things flow, we hope. …”
Game four will start at 7 p.m. ET at Scotiabank Arena.
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