Your game in ten:
1. All season the Leafs beat up on non-playoff opponents, lost to good teams, and couldn’t close out games. Well, they just collected five of six points against the Blackhawks, Bruins and Blue Jackets and held onto one-goal leads by building on them late in the third. Happy learned how to putt.
2. What a hit by Connor Carrick on Josh Anderson 10 minutes into the first period, one that led to a successful power play and thereby changed the game in a big way. Carrick has a number of qualities that are similar to a younger Stephane Robidas: right-handed, under six feet, not a gifted skater but mobile, smart and efficient in the way he goes about his business, willing to stand in and take a hit to make a play (there were a couple of instances of that tonight, with the Blue Jackets coming after him for his earlier hit), pinches smartly, can move the puck, doesn’t mess around defending his crease, and a good student of the game.