It’s always a bit iffy to look at single game Corsi and Expected Goals and read much into it. It’s descriptive, yes, but there’s likely some errors one way or the other on shots miscounted, locations misapplied and you need to consider anything a couple of shots from even as just even.
But Game One of Round One of this year’s playoffs shows some very interesting results and paints the picture of a team very much changed from last year’s Leafs.
Score and Venue Adjusted Corsi: 53-50 for the Leafs. (All numbers are from Natural Stat Trick.