Joseph (Brick) Woll and the Maple Leafs shut down Panthers and bring series back home for Game 5
It was the best game the team has put together since the second game of the first round, a 7-2 drubbing of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Leafs were a more composed group, playing more in control and they got the goaltending they needed from Woll, who was pressed into service because of an undisclosed upper-body injury toThe Panthers are an opportunistic team that feeds off their opposition’s mistakes, and the Leafs didn’t make many.
It is the fourth time since this run of post-season appearances began 2017 that the Leafs staved off elimination in a playoff round. They’ve typically been the team with the advantage, but they beat Boston twice in 2018 to rally from a 3-1 deficit to force a Game 7, and they were down 2-1 to Columbus in the best-of-five qualifying round playoff in the COVID-shortened season in 2020, winning Game 4 to send that series the distance.
Players around the league always speak of the fourth win in a best-of-seven being the hardest, the most elusive. Certainly, anyone who has followed the Leafs the past few years is well aware of that. So this was the first step of reminding the Panthers of that, of planting that seed of doubt. And though the Panthers have done well on the road, they’ll will head to Toronto knowing they’ve missed their first chance to eliminate the Leafs.
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