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Before Troy Brouwer rifled home the game-winning goal and made the arena go dead quiet, Braden Holtby said the shot that was supposed to be a goal for Boston’s Tyler Seguin — the one Holtby did the splits to stop point-blank in front of the net — would have got through if not for “the very tip of my toe — the end of my skate.”
This treasure of a series, for that matter, has been “like the edge of a knife,” said Mike Knuble. “It’s that close — one final bounce, one break here or there.”
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