The Canadiens beat the odds and are off to the second round of the playoffs. The Maple Leafs, meanwhile, are facing more uncomfortable questions following another post-season disaster.
Carey Price made 29 saves as Montreal came back from a 3-1 series deficit to beat Toronto 3-1 on Monday in Game 7 of a roller-coaster Original Six matchup.
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.
The Leafs, who finished 18 points ahead of the Canadiens in this year's 56-game campaign and haven't won the Stanley Cup since 1967, got a power play to start the third, but Price was there to deny Hyman on a redirect at the side of the goal. 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' 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 quarterfinals.
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