Maple Leafs not looking back ahead of Game 7, but ghosts of past failures remain
TORONTO — Connor Brown and the Maple Leafs sent all the right messages ahead of Game 7 last year.
He insists this time they actually mean it.
Toronto heads into the finale of a back-and-forth Eastern Conference quarterfinal with the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night with a firm belief. Ghosts of past playoff failures, however, still linger.
The Leafs led the Bruins 4-3 through 40 minutes of Game 7 at TD Garden some 12 months ago only to crash and burn in a 7-4 loss.