TORONTO — After the Bruins’ Game 2 loss in Boston on Monday, coach Jim Montgomery didn’t like his team’s urgency.
“I didn’t think urgency was where it needed to be to prevail,” he said that night. “They improved from Game 1 to Game 2. We didn’t improve enough. We need to get better for Game 3.”
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His team responded. In their 4-2 victory Game 3 on Wednesday, the Bruins played with more urgency from the start.
“It’s the playoffs. You have to have a response,” Jake DeBrusk said. “They had a response after Game 1. They outplayed us in that second game. We had to respond. It was our turn.”
Charlie Coyle said they found another level when they fell behind 1-0 in the second period.
“The response was great. It had a lot to do with the talk on the bench. You’re in the opposing team’s building and they just scored a big goal,” he said. “It’s an important thing to have everyone talk and say “Next shift we go out and battle them and spray it around in the other way.”
Montgomery said he saw it coming long before game time.
“It was awesome. But it was the way we did it,” he said. “At morning skate, I saw the way we were. I saw the way our captain was and I knew we were going to have a good game. I didn’t know we were going to win, because the Leafs are a good hockey team, but I knew that we were coming to play.”
Game 4 is Saturday at 8 p.m.
