Sheldon Keefe rolled the dice again on a 7\u002D11 lineup and came up short — as in giving up two short\u002Dhanded goals.
“Not great, just try and grind my way through it,” he said afterwards of his condition. “Just caught me in a weird spot.”
The western portion of Toronto’s season long five-game trip was split 2-2, and now heads cross-continent to New Jersey on Tuesday.“These are the games for us, that being quite honest, treat it like a playoff game,” Vancouver coach Rick Tocchet advised beforehand to stir up his low-ranked club.Article content
But the Leafs’ first power-play unit was too loose with the puck in the Canucks zone with Di Giuseppe in the box as both Pettersson and Miller skated in alone to give the Canucks a 3-1 lead. After saying he didn’t favour the 11-7 template, Keefe used it a second straight time, likely because the Leafs won with it Thursday in Calgary and to keep getting a look at newbie blueliners Erik Gustafsson and Schenn in game situations.
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