Brad Marchand nets winner as Bruins beat Maple Leafs, take 2-1 series lead

The Leafs best chance came when Parker Wotherspoon, also playing his first Cup playoff game, was double-teamed behind the net by Bertuzzi and Max Domi, who stepped out from behind the net for an open shot, but Swayman gave him little at which to shoot and gobbled it up.

While the B’s had the hit advantage on the stat sheet, the Leafs delivered a couple of thunderous checks late in the period that had the crowd roaring. First Benoit blasted Pastrnak just inside he Leafs blue line, then Ryan Reaves crushed Zacha with a clean check in the neutral zone.

Auston Matthews had a couple of good opportunities early in the second period. The first one came when Lohrei stepped up in the neutral zone, couldn’t get the puck and gave the Leafs a 2-on-1. Matthews kept it and pinged the far post.

His second chance came on a power play with Pastrnak in the box for hooking on a back-check. Swayman stoned him on a wide-open shot from the right circle.

But the Leafs finally broke the ice at 13:10. After Pastrnak had a shot blocked, it produced a big rebound and a 3-on-2 for the Leafs. Matthew Knies finished off the play, tapping home Mitch Marner’s pretty pass for the 1-0 lead.

The B’s hadn’’t been getting many chances in the second, but shortly after the goal, James van Riemsdyk had a breakaway. Making his first appearance in the series, van Riemsdyk tried to tuck it between Samsonov’s pads but the netminder closed them in time.

Then the refs put the whistles away, to the B’s benefit. First, McAvoy slammed Matthews to the ice behind the B’s net, no call.

Then Marchand and Bertuzzi were battling each other in the middle of the ice, a gloves-on scrap that that had the attention of the entire crowd. Samsonov must have had one eye on it, too, because as the tiff was going on the crowd was screaming for the refs to something, anything, Trent Frederic beat the netminder with a long-range shot from the left wing with 2:23 remaining in the period.

The locals were not happy.

Shortly after that, with the crowd still in an uproar, the refs called a makeup rouging penalty on McAvoy. But even then, the Leafs couldn’t take advantage as Bertuzzi wiped it out with a high-stick on Charlie Coyle.

That would give the B’s a power play to start the second and the B’s took their first lead of the game at 1:07. Marchand came out of a pileup on the right boards with the puck and got a shot on net that Samsonov stopped. But with three Leafs still over at the boards, Jake DeBrusk had time to gather the rebound and score his third goal of the series.

The Leafs got a second cheapo call when Lohrei was whistled for hooking Matthews on what looked like a clean check. On the kill, Swayman made two huge saves on Bertuzzi right off the at the bat the B’s killed it off.

But they could not hold the lead as the Leafs tied it on pinball with 8:35 remaining in the third when Morgan Rielly’s shot went off Bertuzzi’s skate, then Hampus Lindholm’s shin and in.

Just 18 seconds later, the B’s captain gave his team the lead again, sniping a shot from the right circle for the 3-2 lead.