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Sheldon Keefe Post Game, Leafs 5 vs. Lightning 0: “The crowd was the first star of the game… I felt home-ice would be important, but I didn’t know it’d be *that* important”

On the massive five-minute penalty kill in the first period:

That is a huge part of the win. The early kill was a big one, too, a couple of shifts in or whatever it is. We had to kill one right off of the start there. That gave our team confidence and our kill confidence. When we had the big kill, we just kind of continued from there.

That was huge. We had a lot of guys that were really good today. Our team played really well. Our crowd was unbelievable tonight. I thought the crowd was the first star of the game.