Through hard times and from the brink of elimination, Boston now looks unbeatable.
It's been an emotional, heart-wrenching, and inspiring season for the Boston Bruins, who are one win away from the Stanley Cup Finals. You may ask yourself, well, how did we get here?
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A long Bruins playoff run seemed in the offing when the Boston Marathon terror attack threw the city into chaos on April 15. The team's next home game started with an emotional anthem rendition.
But as the city dealt with mammoth challenges, the Bruins ended the season by losing four of the six games that followed.
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The playoffs started strong. David Krejci's overtime score in Game 4 of Boston's opening-round tilt against Toronto gave the team a 3-1 series lead.
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