They say familiarity breeds contempt. In this case, familiarity made for a boring hockey game.
“Meetings between Mike Babcock’s Toronto Maple Leafs and Bill Peters’ (a former Babcock disciple in Detroit) Carolina Hurricanes were chess matches last season; the two teams split seven goals over the three-game season series. The first meeting required a shootout to decide a 1-1 tie, the second went into overtime tied 0-0, and the other the Leafs won 3-1.”
– MLHS Game PreviewThe prescout ahead of this game had to be akin to looking in a mirror for Mike Babcock.