The other key performance was Jack Campbell, who stole the show in the third period by making multiple enormous saves, including robbing Nick Paul in tight and ...
You can’t beat playing in Toronto in front of a home crowd in the playoffs. You’d like to get a split, but then you come in and you win the first game. And I’m expecting our team to play its best game of the series. We, of course, know what they can do on the power play, but they are also very dangerous at 5-on-5, and we’ve seen that. A lot of is tied into what we need to do better as a team You need to be able to adjust to what the other team is doing. Part of it is matchup, and part of it is just our team game. At some point in this series, they will need more significant contributions from two of their stars who have been non-factors up to this point: John Tavares and William Nylander. Through three games in the series so far, they have combined for just one point, a secondary assist from Tavares on Auston Matthews’s power-play goal in Game 1. In the third period especially, the Leafs really struggled on D-zone retrievals and exits, which resulted in too many failed breakouts and turnovers against the Tampa forecheck. Tampa Bay boasts a 15-0 record in such contests in the last three postseasons. Michael Bunting was having such a rough go that Keefe put Kerfoot back on the top line, which appears to be how the lines will start tonight. Without Campbell, the Leafs simply do not make it out of that game with a win.
Two days after Jack Campbell robbed Steven Stamkos with a save-of-the-year candidate to preserve a Maple Leafs win in Game 3, Toronto pulled Campbell ...
Nylander got Toronto on the board with a goal on the man advantage at 2:27 of the third to spoil Vasilevskiy’s bid for the seventh playoff shutout of his career before adding his second of the playoffs with the teams skating 4 on 4 at 12:05. Campbell stayed in the game for a couple more minutes, but was pulled in favour of Kallgren following a TV timeout after a long chat with Keefe at the bench. Kallgren finished with 10 stops. Tampa followed that up with a Perry goal that made it 5-0 — the third from a Lightning fourth-liner — on a long 5-on-3 man advantage at 5:25 after a John Tavares was whistled for hooking and David Kampf fired the puck out of play nine seconds later for a delay-of-game call. The Leafs hadn’t even crossed centre when Stamkos — robbed by Campbell on a late one-timer in Game 3 with Tampa pressing to tie — blasted another of his patented bullets a minute into the first to blow the roof off the sold-out rink after Toronto defenceman Justin Holl couldn’t clear the zone. But Toronto, which finished the regular season with 115 points, five clear of the Lightning for second in the Atlantic Division, started its third line and third defence pair, and was on the back foot from the drop of the puck as Tampa’s top units came in waves against a skittish opponent.
The Toronto Maple Leafs can celebrate Mothers Day in fine fashion by taking a commanding 3-1 lead on the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup Champs.
He’s got his reasons, this team is incredibly deep, and I am certain that at some point Liljegren will get back into the lineup and prove his worth. The Leafs lineup remains mostly the same as it was for game three – and that’s too bad because sitting Timothy Liljegren is incredibly dumb. Game Three was insane – the Leafs started out great, but had to withstand a massive barrage in order to win.
The two-time Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning didn't just beat the Maple Leafs at a crazed Amalie Arena on Sunday night. It stomped on their hearts. It ...
This isn’t Columbus. This may be possible but it may also be improbable. If this was a fight, which it wasn’t, it could have been stopped then. Article content Article content One he should have caught. Article content That was going to happen on offence. Article content Sunday night began badly for Toronto, ended badly, and in the between wasn’t much to see either. Article content Article content Article content
Won't Get Fooled Again is not the Leafs theme song, either. By KatyaKnappe May 8, 2022, 9:50pm EDT.
This game is a gift to the pontification business. We are gloriously right, and that one player is just the guy who is at fault! In speed skating it’s fatigue, and you have to learn to mind over body your way through it. That’s how they Leafs looked in period one and through most of this game. In lieu of analysis, I’m going to tell you a thing I noticed in the first period. In long-track particularly, you can see a skater lose their concentration in the way their body straightens up. I’m listening the Who do Won’t Get Fooled Again live. No one on the Leafs has a grip on this game. I’m not really watching. The Leafs don’t do anything good other than the great defence by Rielly when Marner gives the puck away. I don’t think there’s a penalty there to anyone. All of them.
Ross Colton gave the Lightning a four-goal lead 3:17 into the period when his wrist shot ricocheted off the glove of Jack Campbell and into the back of the net.
The Tampa Bay Lightning added to their already sizable lead in the second period, scoring a pair of goals to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-0 heading into the third. The Tampa Bay Lightning added to their already sizable lead in the second period, scoring a pair of goals to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-0 heading into the third period. After the Leafs took a pair of penalties, Corey Perry put the Lightning up 5-0 on the ensuing 5-on-3 power play, taking a cross-crease pass and firing it into the open net.
Steven Stamkos scored one minute into the first period to spark an early barrage as the Tampa Bay Lightning steamrolled the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-3 on ...
Nylander got Toronto on the board with a goal on the man advantage at 2:27 of the third to spoil Vasilevskiy's bid for the seventh playoff shutout of his career before adding his second of the playoffs with the teams skating 4 on 4 at 12:05. Kallgren finished with 10 stops. Campbell stayed in the game for a couple more minutes, but was pulled in favour of Kallgren following a TV timeout after a long chat with Keefe at the bench.
Entering Sunday's Game 4 the Maple Leafs had comported themselves well in this series, full value in building 1-0 and 2-1 leads. Yet presented with a second ...
“Just a super nice kid,” Bogosian said of the shutdown centre. The winning side has held a three-goal lead in all four. • The Maple Leafs played soccer in the bowels of the arena before the game. “We need him to be good for the next game. “It’s a long way to come back.” “We have a recipe. Now it’s a best-of-three with two in our building. We battled hard [Friday] night to be in the position we were in. We have a plan. “We knew it was coming. It was a message. It was a romp.
The Tampa Bay Lightning steamrolled the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-3 on Sunday to knot their first-round playoff series 2-2.
Nylander got Toronto on the board with a goal on the man advantage at 2:27 of the third to spoil Vasilevskiy’s bid for the seventh playoff shutout of his career before adding his second of the playoffs with the teams skating 4 on 4 at 12:05. Kallgren finished with 10 stops. Campbell stayed in the game for a couple more minutes, but was pulled in favour of Kallgren following a TV timeout after a long chat with Keefe at the bench.
The Leafs did not come out and give the kind of effort that could put away an opponent. Perhaps my view of the game gets skewed because of the early goal, but a ...
I hated this game, I think the Leafs can do better, but there is just no excuse really, for the Marner and Matthews to be anything less than dominant. The Leafs have the home ice advantage, Tampa are the champs. The Leafs did not come out and give the kind of effort that could put away an opponent.
No one on the Leafs wanted to be here, but that's where they are.
Ex-Leaf Trevor Moore scored in the game, while our old friend Carl Grundstrom scored a controversial goal to close out the game. the Penguins are leading this series 2-1. Needless to say, they have to sort out everything which went wrong last night, and they have to do it immediately. The Leafs will win the series in six games.(18 votes) the Capitals are leading this series 2-1. They have to find a way to blow off last night’s debacle and move on.