NHL Playoff Odds: Boston at Montreal

by Elizabeth Fairview  |  April 22nd, 2009
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The Boston Bruins, who are poised to win their first playoff series in 10 years, will get their first chance to finish off the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 tonight. (Wikimedia Images)

Boston will also get a boost from the return of Milan Lucic, who served a one-game league suspension and missed Game 3.

As for the Canadiens' task for Game 4, it is plain and simple. They have to win, or pack it in. Montreal was without defenseman Mathieu Schneider and left wing Alex Tanguay on Monday night, both key players sidelined by upper-body injuries. Top defenseman Andrei Markov has been out with a lower-body injury that cost him the last four games of the regular season.

Can the Habs fight off elimination and send the series back to Boston, or will the Bruins sweep and move on? With the Bruins being 8-0 in the last eight meetings, the odds seem good for a sweep.

 
 
 

 

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