As the Leafs are about to play the second half of their seventh back-to-back game, everyone’s minds turn to backup goalies. Again. The magic trick of playing the struggling Michael Hutchinson in the first game instead of the second did not yield a win. The team did not play well, and he did not save them:
The players and the coach can trot out the talking points about how they’re behind him, and we sure could tell they weren’t in front of him doing much, but this isn’t about him or if he feels good about being part of the team.