The Boston Bruins are 12-3 over their last 15 home games. The Bruins will have home ice advantage this Wednesday night in the only Game 7 of the first round of the NHL playoffs when they take on the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Maple Leafs vs. Bruins odds 2018: Boston favored on the NHL betting lines for Game 7
The Boston Bruins host the Toronto Maple Leafs with the series on the line in Game 7 Wednesday night, with the sportsbooks setting them as chalk on the odds.
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Boston is a -165 home favorite to win this game and series at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. The Maple Leafs were a +166 road underdog when they won Game 5 by a score of 4-3, and they’ll try to steal another one in Boston as a +155 underdog this time around.
Toronto Maple Leafs at Boston Bruins
When: Wednesday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. ET
Where: TD Garden, Boston
Betting Line / Total: Boston -165 / 5.5 Goals
Boston Bruins
After cruising to a 5-1 win in Game 1 and a 7-3 win in Game 2, Boston looked well on its way to an easy trip into the second round. A 3-1 win without Patrice Bergeron in Game 4 set the table for a series-closing game in Game 5 as -185 favorites, but Toronto jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in that one and never looked back.
Tuukka Rask will now have to face his demons in Game 7s as the starting goaltender is 1-2 with a 3.63 goals-against average and an .849 save percentage in three career Game 7 appearances.
Dating back to 2013, the Bruins and Maple Leafs have split their last 18 meetings in Boston at 9-9 each per the OddsShark NHL Database.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Frederik Andersen has been sensational in helping Toronto push this series to seven games, stopping 42 of the 45 shots he faced in a 4-3 win in Game 5 and 32 of the 33 shots he faced in Monday night’s 3-1 win in Toronto.
The offense has also come alive as well scoring seven goals over the last two games of the series after scoring just nine through the first four. Nazem Kadri has tallied an assist in each of his last two games after serving out his three-game suspension.
Wednesday’s total is set at 5.5 goals. The OVER is 5-0-4 in Boston’s last nine home games and at least six goals have been scored in all nine of those games.
Of the 296 teams in NHL history to fall behind 3-1 in a best-of-seven series, only 28 teams have managed to climb out of that hole and win the series. To become the 29th, the Maple Leafs are going to need another outstanding performance from their goaltender in what will be an extremely hostile environment in Boston.
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