From kristen_shilton: Lightning depth players dominate ‘lethargic’ Leafs in rout. MORE:
combined for just two assists. It was Tampa’s depth that drowned the Leafs on a night the hosts were outshot 42-28.delivered the opening salvo, deflecting a puck off his skate past Andersen for a 1-0 lead.’s point blast to make it 2-0 before the end of the first. And then Johnson struck again early in the second, burying a puck that ricocheted off Andersen’s mask and found the winger waiting in the weeds to make it 3-0.
As Andersen took the fall for a poor overall team showing, Matthews came to life with an end-to-end rush and shot that beatIf Toronto still had hope of a comeback at that point, it was rapidly extinguished by their own egregious error on an ensuing power play, when an inexplicably bad line change created a three-on-one shorthanded chance the other way, andRielly thought he’d been hooked prior to that play developing, and“I know personally I shouldn’t have changed when I changed.
Toronto had already seen Tampa twice this season, and beaten them once, so how well the Lightning play isn’t exactly a mystery. It was the Leafs’ seeming lack of preparedness to manage their attack that was most bothersome. “We have to learn from today,” Tavares stated. “This was a great opportunity for us. Certainly look ourselves in the mirror and look to bounce back and understand we have to be a lot better than we were today.”During Monday's game, a microphone picked up audio of a homophobic slur being uttered on the ice.
NHL PR released a similar statement and said they will have no further comment until their investigation is complete. Matthews had as fraught an outing in Monday’s game as any Leaf, punctuating some difficult defensive zone errors with a highlight-reel worthy goal to try and breathe life into his lagging team.
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