The Toronto Maple Leafs, bizarrely left for dead not a month into the season, showed their critics why it might not be such a good idea to write them off just yet.
Tail-spinning to an (all things considered) respectable .500 record after playing an AHL goalie three times, and having their best players (especially Matthews and Rielly) going absolutely ice-cold to to start the year, the Toronto Maple Leafs had to make a statement. .
Management wasn’t going to make it for them, so the players had to speak for themselves with their play.
And what a statement it was.