Your game in 10:
1. What is there to say about the first period that isn’t glaringly obvious? Shot counts don’t end up 15-1 in a 20-minute period if you aren’t losing most of the puck races and most of the puck battles. There was some shot-column padding with outside shots from the Devils, and the grade-As weren’t hugely plentiful as the Leafs protected the house, but it was far short of good enough from the Leafs, 0-0 scoreline aside. The Devils just did everything faster, better, harder.
The ice tilting the Devils’ started right from puck drop, when the Tavares line plus the OEL-Tanev pairing took the ice.