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The Boston Bruins earned a berth in the Stanley Cup finals with a 1-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday night in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals.

Tim Thomas stopped 33 shots after allowing another early goal, and Brad Marchand scored the game-winner to lead Boston to a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night and put the Bruins one win away from the Stanley Cup finals....

David Krejci and Tyler Seguin each scored as the Boston Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 in Thursday's Game 3 and took a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference finals.

Tyler Seguin had two goals and two assists and the Boston Bruins fed off the energy of the recently promoted rookie to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-5 and tie the Eastern Conference finals at one game each on Tuesday night.Boston earned a split at home and snapped the Lightning's eight-game winning streak that began when they were down 3-1 to Pittsburgh in the first round. Game 3 is at Tampa Bay on Thursday.

Milan Lucic scored twice, Johnny Boychuk got the go-ahead goal, and the Boston Bruins stopped any chance of another historic comeback by the Philadelphia Flyers with a 5-1 win Friday night that completed a sweep of the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

The Philadelphia Flyers know they can do it. They just can't afford to think about it - not yet, at least. For the second consecutive year, the Flyers have spotted Boston a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals. Last year, Philadelphia won the next four games to eliminate the Bruins on its way to the Stanley Cup finals.

David Krejci scored 14:01 into overtime and the Boston Bruins beat Philadelphia 3-2 on Monday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Nathan Horton scored 5:43 into overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night in Game 7 of their first-round playoff series.The Bruins will play the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference semifinals for the second consecutive year.

The Montreal Canadiens have little time to savor their latest successful effort at staving off playoff elimination.They've got another do-or-die game coming right up. And now, so do the Boston Bruins.

Nathan Horton scored at 9:03 of the second overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 2-1 win on Saturday night and a 3-2 lead over the Montreal Canadiens in their first-round playoff series.