Saturday night wasn’t great for either Toronto Maple Leafs or Toronto Marlies fans. For the Leafs, it was an honest 3-2 loss at the hands of the Boston Bruins. But for the Marlies, their affair with the Rochester Americans was fraught with much more drama.
After going on the road and beating the same Americans 5-1 on Friday night, the Marlies went in front of their home fans and put up a scoreline of equal but opposite magnitude. They lost 5-1.
It was not a good night for relative newcomer Michael Carcone, who “put himself ahead of the team,” according to head coach Sheldon Keefe, with a “selfish” retaliation for a hit against the Amerks just as the Marlies were starting to mount a comeback.