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General Daily Insight for May 03, 2024
Our problems are no match for our tenacity and courage today. Once assertive Mars sextiles deep-rooted Pluto at 5:06 am EDT, we’re equipped to take serious and decisive action. Our intuition can help us find information useful to our efforts, as the sensitive Pisces Moon sextiles the vibrant Sun.
8212; William Nylander scored twice, Joseph Woll made 22 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday night to force a seventh game in the first-round Eastern Conference series.
“We battled and competed,” said Nylander, who sat the first three games of the series because of an undisclosed ailment.