Three years ago Tuesday, the Boston Bruins completed a 3-0 series collapse by blowing a 3-0 first period lead to the Philadelphia Flyers in a Game 7. Three years later, they were on the other end of an dramatic, in-game comeback to save themselves from another series collapse.

Patrice Bergeron's goal 6:05 into overtime finished off the Bruins' turnaround and ended the Toronto Maple Leafs' season, giving Boston a 5-4 win in Game 7.

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The Bruins will move on to the second round to face the New York Rangers.

When Nazem Kadri scored his first playoff goal 5:29 into the third period, the Maple Leafs held a 4-1 lead. Toronto had taken advantage of a flat Boston team and were on their way to a series victory.

It was then that the desperation finally set in for the Bruins.

Nathan Horton scored four minutes after Kadri to cut the Toronto lead to 4-2. Then, with Tuukka Rask on the bench for the extra attacker late in the third

It's Game 7 madness!

The Toronto Maple Leafs visit the Boston Bruins in the final game of this Kessel-powered, Seguin-less series. Then the New York Rangers visit the Washington Capitals for what might be yet another Caps' Game 7 heartbreak on home ice ... or the start of something special for Alex Ovechkin and the boys.

Please join your friends at Puck Daddy for our Game 7's chat beginning at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. You bring the funny; we bring the abrupt changes in tone and Hamburger Women. That's how it works.

Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished.

Getty ImagesPreview: Toronto Maple Leafs at Boston Bruins, 7 p.m. ET. (Series tied 3-3) The Maple Leafs are the 48th team in NHL history to force a Game 7 after falling behind 3-1 in a playoff series. They're also 1-13 in series when they've trailed 3-1, with their last comeback coming in 1942 over the Detroit Red Wings when they were behind 3-0. But you throw out history in Game 7s. Anything can happen. Anyone can step up. So far, it's been James Reimer carrying Toronto to this point, while the Bruins are hoping to finally get contributions from the likes of Tyler Seguin and Brad Marchand to put them in the second round.

Preview: New York Rangers at Washington Capitals, 8 p.m. ET (Series tied 3-3) Another seven-game series between the Capitals and Rangers ends Monday night with the expectation that it will be another tight one. The last five games in this series have been decided by a single goal and the home team has won every game so far. New York has not won any of their five road Game 7s in franchise history, with their last coming in 2009 when Sergei Fedorov scored a late winner for the Capitals.

NOTE: We'll be live chatting during both games tonight, so please join us beginning at 7 p.m. ET. Rumor has it Mayor McBoobs will be there.

Evening Listening

• Here's today's Marek vs. Wyshynski podcast featuring Scott Morrison of Sportsnet. [MvsW]

Matthew Perry is a big Los Angeles Kings fan, so their Game 6 victory over the St. Louis Blues was a joyous occasion. OK, somewhat joyous: Earlier on Friday, Perry’s NBC sitcom “Go On” (or according to Ryan Lochte, “GOON”) was cancelled after one season.

So the Kings game might have been a nice escape from this professional strife for the former “Friend” … save for FOX Sports reporter Dan Moriarty’s super-awkward interview with Perry, as he congratulates him for the cancellation.

Er … uh … so, we’ll just go ahead and assume that Moriarty and Perry are cool enough where he’s able to crack a joke like this without being a heartless jerk.

But for this potential faux pas, we sentence him to a weekend watching “Mr. Sunshine” and “Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip” box sets. Assuming they exist.

s/t Awful Announcing

Getty ImagesThe Toronto Maple Leafs are in the postseason for the first time since 2004; and after a nine-year absence, they're reminding fans just how up and down the emotions of the playoffs can be.

After falling behind 3-1 in their series to the Boston Bruins, the Maple Leafs, specifically James Reimer, rose to the occasion and forced a Game 7 with two convincing wins. The crowds outside Maple Leaf Square have grown as the series has gone on; and with the series' final game in Boston, Monday night's will be the biggest yet.

Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

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• Who will start Game 1 for the Pittsburgh Penguins? [Pens]

• Jonathan Toews on the Detroit Red Wings: “They've got some veteran guys who have won Stanley Cups and they understand what it takes to win during playoff time, and that's the reason they came out on top.” [Sun Times]

• The cops are on high alert for Game 7 at Toronto’s viewing party. [G&M]

• Joffrey Lupul believes the Boston Bruins have the pressure for Game 7: “We’ve won two in a row. The pressure is mostly on them. I don’t think a lot of people expected this game to even be happening, especially when we were down, 3-1.” [Bruins Blog]

(Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The bloggers who hated them the most. Here is New York Rangers blogger Scotty Hockey, fondly recalling the New York Islanders. Again, this was not written by us. Also: This is a roast and you will be offended by it, so don't take it so seriously.)

By Scotty Hockey

We come here today to mourn the lost on Long Island. Don't worry -- Rick DiPietro was still just joking.

No, we congregate to appreciate the passing of the 2013 New York Islanders.

Oh, it was quite the run -- one that will be remembered for the 15 minutes it takes all of their new fans to put their still-tagged sweaters back in storage.

And perhaps they'll reminisce fondly in the future, a few years down the line, when they sell those blue and orange atrocities at Goodwill stores to Brooklyn hipsters who find them ironic.

"Dude, there was really someone named Okposo!"

One of these eight players will be the cover model for EA Sports’ NHL 14:

From EA Sports:

The Round of 16 featured some extraordinarily close matchups and included some notable upsets:

The Battle of Pennsylvania: For the second year in a row, Evgeni Malkin has been defeated by a Philadelphia Flyers player. Last year, Malkin lost to NHL 13 Cover Athlete Claude Giroux in the semifinals. This year, Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds unseeded Malkin.

As Close as they Come: At final tally, less than 100 votes separated winner Taylor Hall and his opponent Matt Duchene in this round.

Two Maple Leafs Advance: against Original SixTM Rivals: A strong Game Six performance may have helped Joffrey Lupul and James van Riemsdyk overcome their opponents, P.K. Subban and Tyler Seguin, respectively.

Voting for this round is now live and fans can vote an unlimited number of times at NHL.com/CoverVote. The round closes on May 19 at 11:59pm ET.