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TORONTO --The Toronto Maple Leafs can accurately be described as the NHLs cardiac kids. It's a team averaging more than six goals per gamethat butwins on one night, and snatches victory from the jaws of defeat another, like they did in a 4-3 comeback victory over the Chicago Black Hawks on Monday.
The Leafs high-scoring antics entertained more than 19,000 fans at Air Canada Centre Roy Lopez Jerseys and is exciting a fan base desperate for a winner, but the club early in the season is still struggling to play the two-way game that head coach Mike Babcock believes is nece sary to prevail when playoff time comes around.
(Chicago) were better than us early obviously," Babcock said after his clubs third straight victory to open the season. "Better sticks, better defensively, worked harder, were quicker than us. We were too slow, but I thought we really got engaged and Houston Texans Men Jersey we have a deep group, so we were able to come at them pretty good.
The Leafs were sluggish early in the game when they tried to play more defensively responsible, but trailing by two goals late in the third, Toronto had no choice but to take more chances offensively and shorten their bench, moving veteran Patrick Marleau up with Auston Matthews ( Vince Wilfork Jerseys ) and William Nylander and Connor Brown with Nazem Kadri and Leo Komarov.
I felt like our second and third period, we were almost a different team from the first," Brown said. "(It was) a bit of a track meet in the first and thats not the way we want to play.(Chicago) was making so many plays and you kind of get sucked into playing like that and to turning pucks over and I thought we did a good job of bouncing back and just getting back to the way we need to execute.
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Toronto has the luxury to rely on their depth of talent to win games during the regular season. The addition of veterans Patrick Marleau, Ron Hainsey, and Dominic Moore were intended in part to stabilize the young group and provide an example of how to play when things tighten up in the postseason, but that added experience has yet to yield positive results on the young core group thus far.
We have a lot of depth up front and were getting a lot of goals from (the defense) so far, so that is obviously huge, James van Riemsdyk said. (Having depth) makes it Ka'imi Fairbairn Jerseys really hard to defend as a team when you have guys chipping in all over the lineup.
But Toronto knows playing tighter, mistake-free hockey is the key to a deeper run in the playoffs. Last spring, the Capitals dispatched the Leafs in a first round series many expected Washington to easily win. But after four games, and a 2-2 deadlock, the Capitals eked out a 4-2 win, Games 5 and 6 each decided in 201 overtime games. In those instances tight-checking, one-goal playoff hockey games the Leafs know every mistake and detail is paramount to succe s.
For the outcome to be different next spring, the Leafs cannot rely on their wealth of talent to erase a late deficit,or compensate a blownfour-goal Steven Nelson Jerseys lead.Toronto has to play more responsibly than they have shown on the very young 2017-18 season.
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