2013: Bruins knock out Maple Leafs with overtime winner
Patrice Bergeron's overtime goal in 2013 lives on through the phrase "it was 4-1" that still circles around the internet to this day -- for good reason.
The first round series between the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs was all Boston's to lose. The team had the chance to eliminate Toronto in Games 5 and 6, but the Maple Leafs hung on to send the series back to Boston for Game 7.
Although the Bruins scored first that night, Toronto got the next four goals in a row and had a comfortable 4-1 lead with 11 minutes left in the game. That's when Nathan Horton hammered one in from the left circle, cutting the Leafs' lead to two.
In the final two minutes of the game, the Bruins pulled goalie Tuukka Rask for the extra attacker and came within one off the stick of Milan Lucic to make it 4-3. They were still announcing Lucic's goal in the arena when Patrice Bergeron lasered a wrist shot from the point to tie it up with just 51 seconds remaining on the clock.
It was Bergeron who would go on to cement the win in overtime after finding the loose puck following a mad scramble in front of the Leafs crease. The image of goalie James Reimer laying face down as the Bruins celebrated is perhaps the most memorable from the entire game.
In a cruel twist of fate, Toronto actually drafted Tuukka Rask in 2005 and traded him to the Bruins before he could even make his NHL debut. Eight years later, he was the starting goalie for Boston when his team completed one of the most unforgettable comebacks of the modern NHL.