When you do that, then you go home, and anything can happen. Then, the second period, then the third period and the hockey game. 'They have to focus on one thing: Winning the first period. 'For Toronto, being on the road, well, it just stokes the 'us-versus-the-world' mentality,' Boucher said from Seattle, where he's covering the Seattle Kraken-Dallas Stars series in the Western Conference Second Round. Toronto has lost the first three games of the best-of-7 series and has absolutely no margin for error. That's exactly what the Maple Leafs will be looking for in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference Second Round against the Florida Panthers at FLA Live Arena on Wednesday (7 p.m. And with every win you can get, it creates a crack of doubt in your opponent.' First, we'd just seen our opponent lose one of their most influential players secondly, we won that fourth game, our first of the series, and it gave us momentum knowing one of their key cogs was out. It was like a double stroke of fortune for us.

'What happened for us is that (Bruins center) David Krejci got hurt in Game 4. It's a difficult enough task that you don't want to add more pressure on yourself. 'The most important thing is, you've just got to get one,' he said in a phone interview Tuesday.

The key, he said, is not to look too far ahead. In 2010, Boucher was part of a Philadelphia Flyers team that lost the first three games in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Boston Bruins before reeling off four consecutive victories to advance. So says former NHL goaltender Brian Boucher, now an analyst for ESPN.

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