It won’t automatically turn them all into Bruins fans but four people from a Mississauga restaurant are going to Monday night’s game in Boston because they went the extra mile to feed the Maple Leafs’ playoff opponents after Sunday’s 2-1 loss at the Air Canada Centre.

The Bruins were a hungry, but crestfallen, bunch of players and needed a place to chow down when mechanical problems prevented them from flying back to Boston after the game.

Canyon Creek, near Pearson International Airport, came to the rescue and kept their kitchen open for the Bruins. To show their appreciation, the Bruins gave tickets to four people, who spent most of Monday driving to Boston.

“Game 7, it doesn’t get any better than that,” said restaurant general manager Alex Rigas, who along with service manager Lauren Grenier, bartender Scott Leinster and server Darren Boast left Toronto at 4:30 a.m. for their 10-hour drive to Boston.

“Darren is a Boston fan so he’s wearing a Bobby Orr jersey but the rest of us have Leaf jerseys on. Lauren has Tie Domi’s name on hers and Scott has Phil Kessel’s name on his but I don’t have anybody on mine.”

The Bruins were very happy the restaurant could help them out at the very last minute.

“The staff did an amazing job with almost no notice and made our team a great meal,” said Matt Chmura, the Bruins vice-president of communications. “Some of the staff members were interested in coming to the game and we were glad to help them with tickets as a way to thank them.”

The team, which stayed at the Westin Hotel near the airport, called just in time because the restaurant was about to close for the evening.

“Lauren took the phone call and she initially thought it was just a joke,” Rigas said in a phone interview from Boston. “It had been a busy Mother’s Day and the restaurant was completely closed but she gets the call asking if she could accommodate 40 or 50 people and she said, sure, never thinking it was really them.

“But then they showed up just before 11 p.m. We had them fed by 12:30. They were very gracious. We got some help from our sister brand (Jack Astor’s ) next store.”

It was Grenier, who afterwards joked (to a Bruins scout) that it would be great to get some Game 7 tickets, Rigas said.

“We looked at each other and said — are we going to do this?” Rigas said. “We said, let’s do it. We’re three huge Leaf fans and Darren is a big Bruins fan so we carpooled it down to Boston. It’s going to be well worth it when the Leafs win.”

The Bruins flew out of Toronto around 9 a.m. on Monday. The Leafs made it to Boston following their victory that evened the best-of-seven series at three games apiece.