David Pastrnak scored on a feed from Hampus Lindholm 1:54 into overtime and the Boston Bruins outlasted the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 in Game 7 on Saturday to clinch their first-round series and advance in the NHL playoffs to a Round 2 date with Florida.
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Canelo Alvarez retained his undisputed super middleweight championship with a unanimous decision win against Jaime Munguia on Saturday night in Las Vegas. The judges scored it 115-113, 117-110 and 116-111 for the Mexican star, who improved to 61-2-2.
Anthony Edwards scored a playoff career-high 43 points to help the Timberwolves seize home-court advantage with a Game 1 win in Denver.
You would think the Boston Bruins’ dominance on the ice against the Toronto Maple Leafs would be enough.
After all, the Bruins’ 2–1 overtime victory Saturday evening in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs’ first round polished off their seventh straight postseason series win over the Maple Leafs. Toronto hasn’t beaten Boston in a playoff series since 1959—eight years before its most recent Stanley Cup title.
However, the Bruins took matters a step further after right wing David Pastrňák’s winner.
Walking by the Kentucky Derby winner’s circle after the biggest victory of his life, trainer Kenny McPeek held the hand of his daughter, Annie. McPeek looked at her and, with his other hand, held his index finger and thumb about three inches apart. That was his assessment of the margin of victory in one of the most dramatic Derbies in the 150-year history of the race.
A three-horse photo finish, the first in the Derby since 1947, turned the 1 1/4-mile race into a withering battle of inches in the final strides.
It’s hard to say that Saturday’s 43-point game from Anthony Edwards in a win over Denver was the Minnesota star’s arrival, because there’s still another level for him.
In 2019, SI‘s S.L. Price christened the Toronto Maple Leafs’ plight “one of the world’s last great championship droughts.”
That sentiment will hold true for another year.
The Maple Leafs lost 2–1 in overtime Saturday to the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the two teams’ first round series, ensuring that Toronto will remain Stanley Cup-less as it has every year since 1967.
More immediately, in extended the Maple Leafs’ infamous streak of Game 7 losses to six—four of which have come to the Bruins in 2013, ’18, ’19 and now ’24.
Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi’s greatness can be taken for granted worldwide, given that many soccer fans do not remember the sport without him.
Sometimes, though, it’s nice to get a reminder of just how special he is—and has been since he burst on to the scene in the mid-2000s.
On Saturday, Messi provided just such a reminder to all in attendance at Inter Miami’s 6–2 victory over the New York Red Bulls. He assisted on five goals—the most by any player in one game in Major League Soccer’s 29-year history.
This is what the Padres had in mind when they dealt for Luis Arráez.
Anthony Edwards scored a playoff career-high 43 points to help the Timberwolves seize home court advantage with a Game 1 win in Denver.