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Brad Marchand scored with 4:20 left in the first overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in the first playoff game in 40 years between the Original Six teams.

Marchand, Boston’s top goal scorer in the regular season, got his first of the post-season on a pass from Patrice Bergeron. Marchand had carried the puck up the right side, passed it to Bergeron and kept going toward the net. Bergeron passed across the slot and Marchand tipped it past goalie Henrik Lundqvist from the left side of the crease.

The Bruins carried the play throughout overtime. They applied constant pressure, but couldn’t score during a power play when Derek Dorsett was penalized for interference at 2:20 of overtime.

Yes, yes the Elisha Cuthbert eye roll is dominating the news today, which is kind of surprising given the OT thriller between the Leafs and Bruins on Wednesday night.

But we cleared a few things up: No, Cuthbert was not giving the stink eye to James Reimer’s wife April. OK? OK. You may now continue your life/stop making “Kim Bauer” jokes. Phew.

Read about it here.

This was probably the strangest part of last night’s Canadiens-Senators game: Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a goal for the Senators, but got a high stick in the face and lost a tooth. Here he is trying to pick it up.

In case you’re keeping track at home — Carey Price, the Canadiens goaltender lost a tooth during Game 2 (he skated over to the bench and handed it to the trainer) and his Senators counterpart, Craig Anderson, lost a tooth in Game 1. Essentially, the team that has a player who loses a tooth, ends up winning the game. (Photo: Jana Chytilova/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images)

This kind of sums up what happened last night between the Predators and Coyotes. Country music star Carrie Underwood reacts to a play during the Predators-Coyotes game.

For Phoenix, it was a tale of two victories - a potential sale in the works, and an appearance in the Western Conference Final. But for the Predators, it was a night of what ifs - and questions about how their dream season turned to dust.

This is for all you “Bones” fans: The Stanley Cup dropped by the television show’s set on Wednesday. We don’t know whose skull that is, but click through for more photos.

The thinnest of margins
Bruce Arthur: Towards the end of the second period, Boston’s Rich Peverley was being pushed around, and he turned at Washington goaltender Braden Holtby and started an angry two-handed slash that he stopped short of the Capitals netminder by a few inches, just enough. Holtby stood with his arms crossed, a statue. He might not even have blinked.

And Game 7 between Boston and Washington was about who would blink first, and who would follow through. It was the first playoff series in NHL history to have all seven games decided by a single goal; it was as close as a playoff series can possibly be, or has ever been. And the final goal of the series belonged to Washington, on a goal 2:25 into overtime, for a 2-1 victory. The margin, as it had been all series, was a skate blade, if that.
Photo: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters

It’s over. The Vancouver Canucks couldn’t dig themselves out of a 3-0 series hole, and now the Presidents’ Trophy winners will be practising their golf swing for the next few months. The No. 8 Kings are onto the next round. Maybe next year?

NHL will announce Raffi Torres suspension on Saturday: Phoenix Coyotes winger Raffi Torres will learn on Saturday the length of his suspension for his devastating hit on Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa, the National Hockey League said on Friday.

Torres was suspended indefinitely after he launched himself into an unsuspecting Hossa with a shoulder-to-head hit more than half a second after the Chicago player passed the puck during Game Three of Tuesday’s Western Conference quarter-final.

“I can’t really talk about it right now,” Torres told Reuters when asked how the hearing went.