All day, I wanted to believe things would be different. Just this once. Matthews and/or Marner would break through. The coaching staff would take advantage of last change. Maybe, the Leafs would play well from puck drop instead of waiting to fall behind by a couple of goals.
Nope. Same old, same old. I’m going to have more expansive thoughts that will likely be more composed and reasonable in the coming days or weeks, but a lot of the issues were obvious tonight in a yet another first-round playoff funeral that looked a lot like the other ones over the years.