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The Boston Bruins fought, but were unable to claim their fourth straight victory when they squared off in Toronto last night. At the beginning of the game, though, things looked as if they would certainly go thr wrong way for them.

Eric Lindros got the scoring off to a start early in the game with a goal, giving him his sixth of the season, at 08:18 with passes from Tomas Kaberle and Derek Morris. The Leafs then piled on, as Kaberle scored unassisted just thirty seconds into a power play, resulting from a Matt Walker hooking call. Thirty seconds later, Ryan Smyth netted his twelfth of the year when fed the puck thirty feet out, putting it top shelf past Andrew Raycroft.

But Atlanta battled back and pulled within two with just one minute remaining in the period. Peter Sykora buried the puck with one minute remaining to make the score 3-1.

Tim Connolly brought the visitors within one less than two minutes into the second for his fifth of the year on Jochan Hecht's second assist of the evening. The remainder of the period was stone silent.

In the third period, though, the Maple Leafs left the lockerroom excited, and it showed as Brian leetch scored 00:23 into the frame to make the score 4-2.

The Bruins offense would come to life, doubling up the Leafs in shots in the period, 14-7. Two of those fourteen found their way in, with Bret Hedican scoring at 04:14 and Keith Tkachuk springing to life for his fifth of the young year to tie the game.

In the extra frame, the Bruins defense would stand tall. The Leafs managed to not get a shot on goal in the frame, but Nabakov was a maestro in net for Toronto, deflecting all four Boston shots to finish the game netted at four.

Even with just the tie, the Bruins are now 3-1-2 on their extended road stretch. The team travels to Dallas tonight for their sixth road game in six days, where they hope to derail a team which is 6-3-1 in their last ten, and in fourth place overall in the Campbell.

Robbie Ftorek, head coach of the Bruins, had this to say after the game, "We had tremendous effort, and had some great chances, but couldn't get it to go in. Eh... oh well."