Carey Price makes 29 saves as Montreal comes back from a 3-1 series deficit to beat Toronto 3-1 on Monday in Game 7 of a roller-coaster Original Six matchup
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews, left, and teammates Mitchell Marner, right, and Jack Campbell skate off in dejection at the end of Game 7 against the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens won 3-1 on May 31, 2021.The Canadiens beat the odds and are off to the second round of the playoffs.
The Leafs, who haven’t advanced in the post-season since 2004 and won three of the first four games against the Canadiens before Montreal took two straight in overtime to force the all-or-nothing showdown, got a late goal from William Nylander.Leafs are choking their way out of this series, one weak link at a time
Following a tentative first period, Montreal opened the scoring at 3:02 of the second on a sequence that started with a turnover by Mitch Marner at the offensive blue line. The Canadiens headed the other way, and Gallagher snapped his first goal since April 1 after missing six weeks with a broken thumb on a shot Campbell will want back through the five-hole.
Toronto pushed as the period wore on, but Price there to again foil Hyman off a behind-the-back pass from Matthews. Nylander added team-high fifth of the series with 1:36, but Matthews and Marner were held to one total in seven games.The Leafs lost a Game 7 on home ice for just the second time in their history – Wayne Gretzky’s 1993 Los Angeles Kings were the other club to pull off the feat – as Toronto fell to 11-2 all-time when leading a series 3-1.
The Leafs’ last series win, and the last Game 7 played between Canadian teams, was 17 years ago – 6,250 days to be exact – against Ottawa in the Eastern Conference quarter-finals.
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