Five games of Toronto’s season are in the books, and to our great satisfaction, the Leafs have won four of them. Let’s take a deeper look, in full defiance of sample sizes.
- Our top nine is doing well enough in underlying numbers. As per Corsica’s adjusted CF% at 5v5, all three of our standard combinations—Hyman-Matthews-Nylander, JVR-Bozak-Marner, and Marleau-Komarov-Kadri are clearing 56% of the shot attempts. This is quite good. Further to that, they’re all at least 54% in expected goals at evens. That’s pretty swell.
- Speaking of that, the Matthews line is stomping everything in sight.