“I love our start. We were rolling. We were disciplined. Once we took that 5-1 lead, even sometimes in the second period, I thought we got away from our game. At the end of the day, it’s all about the two points.”
– John Gruden
By no means was this a textbook performance, but with the Toronto Marlies still embroiled in a fight for a playoff spot, it is not a question of how but how many points.
First Period
I wasn’t as impressed by Toronto in the first period as their head coach, but they made fewer mistakes on both sides of the puck than Utica and showed resiliency to bounce back from an early goal against.