In Game 1, the postgame sideshow was the scuttlebutt around Brad Marchand’s second kiss of the season that, indeed, began with K – as in Komarov, Leo that is.
The other “K” and “O” as in KO and OK, however, were front and center in Game 1 with the return of Rick Nash and Sean Kuraly who played much better than OK in contributing to drawing penalties toward a KO of the Leafs in that 5-1 final with three Boston power-play goals while the Leafs went 0-for-3 on the PP.
The third-period drilling by Nazem Kadri KO’d Tommy Wingels from the game and resulted in the league handing Kadri a three-game KO.