Your game in ten:
1. A total 180 in first-period fortunes: The Leafs have outscored the opposition 15-3 in first periods since Sheldon Keefe took over the bench. Outscored 29-17 in the opening frame before the coaching change, they’re now back to even in first-period goal differential (32 for, 32 against). Certainly, there is a desperation/engagement factor at play now that the team has had the wakeup call of a coaching change, but you wonder how much of it has to do with Keefe freeing the team up to be aggressive and not to fear the early mistake as much, and whether that’s preventing the team from being as tight as they were early in games before.