Leafs’ Ritchie gets ‘back to basics’ to boost secondary scoring. markhmasters writes:
TSN Toronto Reporter Mark Masters reports on the Maple Leafs, who practised at Ford Performance Centre on Tuesday before travelling to Philadelphia for Wednesday’s game against the Flyers."It's not easy," the 25-year-old admitted of the wait."Obviously, you want to score as many as you can, but it's not that easy right now and I got to get back to basics."
Ritchie scored a career-high 15 goals in 56 games with Boston last season, but did not receive a qualifying offer from the Bruins in the summer. He signed a two-year, $5-million deal with the Leafs and started the season on the top line. "He has done a lot of good things that have gone unnoticed," Keefe stressed."I thought, like a lot of our players, last night was not a good day for him. We expect a lot more and we need to get a lot more out of him. Part of that is on him and part of that is on us to help him get there.
"No, I don't feel like I have to produce offensively," he insisted."I just feel like I got to force turnovers, get the puck to those other two and then just kind of get to the net ... I'm just happy to play my role as high-energy guy and force turnovers." "He's always talking and I like that," Matthews said of Bunting."Just trying to feel each other out and where we want to see each other on the ice. I think each game we've continued to develop a little bit more chemistry and hopefully we keep that going and sustain more offensive-zone time and capitalize on some of these chances we're getting."
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