The Maple Leafs ended their eight-game losing streak vs. the Bruins with a 3-2 win in Game 2 to even their first-round series. Check out our key takeaways from the game ..read more

In the final minute of Auston Matthews' tour de force, with overtime seemingly looming, with the Boston Bruins buzzing, with Ilya Samsonov unsure of the location of the puck Matthews slid the disc under Samsonov's pads. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below ..read more

Don't blame Linus Ullmark for the Bruins' Game 2 loss to the Maple Leafs ..read more

Auston Matthews scored on a breakaway to snap a third-period tie with eight minutes left, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Monday night to knot their first-round playoff series at one game apiece. Ilya Samsonov stopped 27 shots for Toronto, which snapped an eight-game losing streak against Boston over 534 days dating to November 2022. Max Domi and John Tavares also scored for the Maple Leafs, who haven't beaten the Bruins in a playoff series since 1959 ..read more

Pavel Zacha set up a David Pastrnak goal in Bruins-Leafs Game 2 with a phenomenal no-look pass ..read more

William Nylander missed Game 2 of the Maple Leafs' first-round playoff series Monday with an undisclosed injury. Toronto's star winger also sat out his team's 5-1 loss to the Boston Bruins in Saturday's opener. The door swung shut on the 27-year-old Swede's availability when the Leafs hit the ice for warmups. Toronto rookie winger Nick Robertson slotted into the lineup as Nylander's replacement in Game 1 and took the same roster spot Monday ..read more

This article is part of our NHL Picks series. There are four games on the National Hockey League playoff schedule for Monday night, including the series openers for the Vegas Golden Knights and the Dallas Stars, as well as the Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers, in their Western Conference first-round matchups. Coverage gets underway on ESPN at 7 p.m. ET for Game 2 of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins, wrapping up with that Kings-Oilers game on ESPN2 at 10 p.m. ET ..read more

Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery is having fun answering (or not answering) the biggest question pertaining to the Black and Gold. While speaking to reporters after morning skate Monday, seven hours before Boston will host the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 2 of their playoff series, Montgomery again declined to reveal which goaltender would start in net. Montgomery opted not to reveal Boston's Game 1 netminder before the game, and has deflected about the Game 2 starter both after the Bruins' series-opening win and again Sunday ..read more

Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery confirmed Derek Forbort will not be in Boston's lineup against the Toronto Maple Leafs at TD Garden on Monday night. “It was fine,” Forbort told reporters after morning skate, per the Bruins ..read more

Commercial Content. 21+. Action Network is the official betting partner of the New York Post, which edits this content. The Toronto Maple Leafs got caught up in the moment in Game 1 against the Boston Bruins. All season long, the Leafs seem hellbent on proving they wouldn't be physically pushed around in the playoffs, but that seemed to backfire Saturday as Toronto took careless penalties and spent most of the night running around. A better, more-detailed effort is expected from the Leafs in Game 2 . But will it be enough? Maple Leafs vs. Bruins prediction (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) One of the big con ..read more