It was a game and a loss that still stings.
BRUINS STANLEY CUPS SERIES
Six years ago, in the same building, they sat stunned in their dressing room after two goals in 17 seconds by the Blackhawks turned a series that looked bound for Game 7 into a Cup win for the opponent in Game 6. This wasn't the first time that some of these Bruins had been through this. Someone had to win and someone had to lose, and we came out on the wrong side of it. Twelve hours earlier, coach Bruce Cassidy had said, of his legacy, "I just want my name on the Cup." Video: Gm7: Blues, Bruins shake hands after Game 7 Louis celebrate on the ice with sticks and gloves everywhere, with grins and tears and exhilaration, even as they saw expressed all the emotions they had expected to feel - and didn't. They were stunned, even as it was sinking in, even as they watched St. Definitely hardest loss in my career, for sure." I had a good feeling even after the first period that we'd come back. "I believed in this group, every single game. "Felt like it was there for us," Krejci said. They had thought this was their year, their trophy, their championship. They believed after the first period and after the second, and it was only after the Blues scored two more goals - by center Brayden Schenn at 11:25 and forward Zach Sanford, a Massachusetts native, at 15:22 - to go up 4-0 that the belief ever wavered. He later added, "It was a nightmare for me, obviously."īut, still, they believed. "I really wanted to make one of those saves, didn't, but we tried to battle back." "We created a lot of chances and shots, and I barely made a save, and it was 2-0," Rask said. Louis had scored two goals on four shots in the period, and the Bruins had been unable to break through on 12. Rask allowed a goal by Blues center Ryan O'Reilly at 16:47 of the first period off a deflection of a shot by defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, followed by a goal by defenseman Alex Pietrangelo with eight seconds remaining in the period after a bad change by Marchand. Video: Gm7: Cassidy on dropping Game 7, Cup Finalīut it didn't work out that way. He would have liked to have made more saves, to have done more, the way he had throughout the first 23 games of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Louis defense that clamped down as the game wore on. It was unable to get the production it needed from its top line, unable to slash through a St. And like I said, losses like that, it's hard to get over and you just kind of have to learn to live with it."Īfter getting all the way to Game 7, mostly on the strength of an all-time performance from goalie Tuukka Rask, Boston was unable to solve Blues goalie Jordan Binnington in the end. We'll see what the future brings, but that would be really, really hard, a really tough summer. I haven't got over, this one hurts even more. "This one's going to hurt for a long time. "I think this group was so close, so tight, that was one of the best teams I was a part of," center David Krejci said. Louis Blues on Wednesday, 4-1, and they were left with disappointment and devastation and the feeling they could have done more, they could have done something.
On their home ice, at TD Garden, the Bruins had just lost the Stanley Cup Final to the St. "One side is elation, the other side is just … nothing." "It sunk in right away," defenseman Charlie McAvoy said.
They tried to put into words what had just happened, the turnaround that occurred between the top-of-the-world feeling after extending the Stanley Cup Final to a winner-takes-all Game 7 with a victory in Game 6 to watching all that they had worked for come crashing down around them. They just took our dream, our lifetime dream from us and everything we've worked for our entire lives. "It's a heartbreaker," forward Brad Marchand said, his eyes red-rimmed and wet.
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