Your game in ten:
1. The Canadiens were on top of the Leafs early and often in this game. They established their forecheck right from the puck drop and the Leafs were struggling to break out cleanly, throwing the puck away 5-6 times in the first three minutes alone. They couldn’t seem to execute shorter breakouts through the middle of the ice without turning pucks over and they resorted quickly to the familiar flip outs/stretch passes with a low success rate.
The Leafs were pretty careless with the puck in all three zones, really; it was all a little too cute and too soft from the team in Blue and White through most of the 60 minutes at 5v5.