That was terrifying to watch, and I know I wasn’t alone in feeling sick to my stomach watching him try to get up afterward.
In terms of the game, this is the exact type of game Montreal would have wanted and the exact type of game the Leafs have continually shown they can’t break through in. The Leafs generated six high-danger chances at 5v5 and the Habs generated five. As we saw last year against Columbus, the opposition bore the game down and kept it low scoring, it was a low-event game, and the Leafs didn’t create enough.