When Zdeno Chara put a 5-2 goal five minutes into the third period for Boston, it looked like the Massachusettslaget would be able to breathe.
But Toronto wanted another, and Auston Matthews put 5-3, before Travis Dermott with a further reduction saw to it that Boston had to toil for victory in the last six and a half minutes.
It was a few sweaty positions, in principle, the final whistle went, but two seconds before the saw Joakim Nordström to secure Bostonsegern with a goal into the open cage, the hearts of swedes in the playoffs.
acknowledged to 2-2, in the series that goes in the best of seven matches, when in the next match is the time for Boston to play at home.
2-2 is also the figure in the åttondelsfinalserien between Dallas and Nashville, then Dallas had run over Nashville at home with 5-1. Already after the first period, it was clear which way the match was going, after all 4-0 at the periodvilan.
John Klingberg has scored in speed on his passing game and accounted for three assists when he played up to the rookie Roope Hintz and veteran Mats Zuccarello in the first and in the third he gave Hintz open goal after a nifty framspelning then he picked up a bad pass from an opposing player.
the 26-year-old with Lerum as the club with five assists in the playoffs, now more points than he scraped together three years ago, when Dallas also played in the Stanley Cup.