After a slow start to the playoffs – just two games in the eight days since they finished the regular season, the pace of the Eastern Conference quarter-final series between the Maple Leafs and Bruins is about to pick up.
Starting with Monday’s Game 3 at the Air Canada Centre, the two Northeastern Division rivals could square off five times in the next eight days if the series goes the distance. The intensity that clearly builds in any playoff series should be in in fine form by the weekend if the action continues.
After the first playoff game in Toronto in nine years, Game 4 goes Wednesday night with Game 5 scheduled for Boston on Friday. And it’s in the remaining “if necessary” games where things get crazy. Game 6 is back at the Air Canada Centre on Sunday – and there has been much discussion about a possible afternoon start for that one – and if Game 7 is required, it will be back at the TD Garden on Monday night.
So who would a long, condensed series favour? Would it be the veteran, playoff warriors on the Bruins or the youthful legs of the Leafs?
