Nobody's tracking scoring chances for either of these teams, so all we've got to go on is pure shot differential, and Boston had the advantage:
Team | Down 1 | Tied | Up 1 |
BOS | 62.7 | 54.6 | 42.3 |
PHI | 57.7 | 45.4 | 37.3 |
This isn't a small gap, either. Teams that controlled approximately 55% of chances with the score tied won 75% of playoff series over the last five seasons.
Here are the shots by score by game from Boston's perspective:
D1 | D1 | T | T | U1 | U1 | |||
Boston | SF | SA | SF | SA | SF | SA | GF | GA |
Game 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11 | 27 | 12 | 5 | 4 |
Game 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 2 |
Game 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 37 | 4 | 1 |
Game 4 | 19 | 10 | 26 | 35 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
Game 5 | 16 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Game 6 | 28 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Game 7 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
Total | 69 | 41 | 107 | 89 | 55 | 75 | 20 | 22 |
What can I say? Not much of game 5 and 6 were played tied, and the Bruins blew game 7. Chokers???