The randomness of the NHL schedule has given the Leafs an opportunity tonight: They can take the template they used against the one-line Boston Bruins and apply it to the one-line Colorado Avalanche and give themselves more opportunity to refine it.
The Leafs (and the Lightning) are the perfect teams to beat the sort of team that puts all their scoring players in one top line, have one good power play unit, and send out mediocre depth the entire rest of the game. The method employed against Boston, where John Tavares and Auston Matthews kept the top two lines honest (Boston has some skill on their second line, just not all that much) and opened the floor to Nazem Kadri, Patrick Marleau and William Nylander to easily outmatch the depth, worked.