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Game Review: Toronto Maple Leafs 4 vs. Minnesota Wild 2

Your game in ten:

1. This was no masterpiece from the Leafs perspective. The first period was carefully played – a lot of dump-ins and safe play, with neither team able to sustain much of a forecheck/offensive zone time (shots were 6-5 Leafs with 1:45 to go when Jason Zucker tied it up).

The Leafs grabbed the lead early in the second period before getting into some penalty trouble with three minors in the span of 10 minutes. Mike Babcock referred to the second frame as a good period for the team, but they started turning the puck over in the defensive zone (prior to all three penalties) and then the special teams time put them on the backfoot; their possession share at 5v5 was 34% and the Wild were credited with six high-danger chances at evens to the Leafs’ 1.