Photo by Jerome Davis/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesOn Saturday night, in the last game of preseason, the Maple Leafs blew away the Red Wings 5-0. The game-wining goal was scored 29 seconds into the action, and that was it. Game over.
Of course the point of a preseason game, beyond ticket sales, is not to win, but to decide who is going to be playing on your team. The Red Wings, who chose a punishing schedule of six games in seven days to end training camp, had already sent most of the juniors and young players with any spark of life off to other teams. They were left with Dylan Larkin and his uncles to play a beer league game where they were shocked when Ilya Mikheyev checked one of the…
