The Toronto Maple Leafs might have played their worst game of the season so far, and yet they came out with a victory Thursday night vs Dallas.
The Toronto Maple Leafs definitely played their worst period to open the game, giving lots of ammo to those who preach the Start On Time cliché.
The Leafs then recovered, and though it wasn’t pretty, they ended up with a hard fought victory.
Results often cloud the way the game actually went, and this was the first time all season that the Leafs were drastically outplayed.
Against Montreal and Phoenix, the Leafs were a juggernaut facing weak losers and were the better team just by showing up, the problem was they weren’t the better team by as significant of a margin as they should have been.