When Ryan O’Reilly positioned himself rather neatly on the right side of the Tampa Bay defenceman, directly in front of Andrei Vasilevskiy, in the final minute…
Nikita Kucherov has 159 all by himself. The grizzled Corey Perry has a series-high 193 playoff games played. Alex Killorn has been in the Tampa Bay lineup for 137 post-season games.
Combined, the defence has played 64 years of NHL hockey but just 179 playoff games. Victor Hedman, Tampa’s all-world defenceman not having an all-world season, has played 157 himself.The actual Leafs leader in playoff games played right now is Calle Jarnkrok, the quiet winger who went to the Stanley Cup final with Nashville and had participated in 75 games prior to arriving in Toronto last summer.
the way O’Reilly knew instinctively where he had to go on the tying goal, Schenn knew where he needed to stand on the ice, between the benches, when Game 3 began to get out of control. Little things matter in big games. In the past, the Leafs rarely won games in which they were the second-best team on the ice.They won even as Nylander, Matthews, Marner and Tavares, have had better nights. They all need to be better on Monday.
Living up to his reputation isn’t easy. On the Leafs’ first goal Saturday night, O’Reilly was credited with a secondary assist. Which in this case is a dumb piece of terminology. He won the faceoff back to Marner. Marner took a slapshot from the point. Matthews tipped in the shot for a goal.
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