NEW YORK — Brian Boyle, like anyone who has participated in an abundance of postseason games in a short amount of time, said he could barely remember the details.
There was Adam Henrique’s goal in overtime of Game 6…and that’s pretty much it. The 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs were a mere three years ago, yet that’s the only specific Boyle can—or would like to—recall from that Eastern Conference Final knockout punch from the New Jersey Devils.
He was then with the New York Rangers, an inexperienced playoff team with a smattering of veterans learning about the highs and lows of the postseason.
Boyle entered the 2012 postseason with five games of experience. When he takes the ice as a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning for Game 7 of the conference finals on Friday night against his former team, it will be the 77th playoff game of his career.
“We thought we were right there,” Boyle said about that 2012 squad at a press conference on Thursday. “The margin for error we know is so small. It gets smaller and smaller. You see how different things cha ...
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