Word: best-of-seven
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...games against Boston, connected for a pair of third period goals Tuesday night and rallied the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory in the fifth game of their National Hockey League Stanley Cup championship series against the Bruins. The victory left the Rangers trailing the best-of-seven series, 3-2, with game six scheduled for Thursday night in New York...
...fifth game of the best-of-seven series will be played Tuesday night in Boston, where the Bruins, now holding a 34 edge, can clinch their second Stanley Cup in the last three bear...
They could, but no one, not even the Knicks, expect the rest of the best-of-seven series to repeat the action of the first game. The Knicks could hardly play any better; the Lakers clearly can and doubtless will. The Lakers' giant center, Wilt Chamberlain, for instance, may never again be as effectively neutralized. Teammate Jerry West, the alltime N.B.A. play-off scoring leader, cannot do anything but improve his sickly opening-game shooting performance of three baskets in 15 attempts. At the very least, the Knicks1 performance in the first game gave promise that the championship series...
Game No. 4 in the best-of-seven set will be played Friday night at Madison Square Garden...
...that possibility with a third-period power-play goal last night at Boston Garden. The shot, off a pass from Shaky Walton directly in front of New York goaltender Gilles Villemure, gave the Boston Bruins an exciting 2-1 victory, and put them two games up in the best-of-seven series...