The Toronto Maple Leafs are 9-5 with 18 points, three back of the Lightning, who have an extra win and one OT loss in the same amount of games. Not bad to keep pace with the Lightning when you are missing two of your best players.
The Penguins game was the Leafs best of the season so far, and I think it’s fair to say it was a total domination. Morgan Rielly and Mitch Marner were unreal. It’s crazy to think a team as good as the Leafs iced on Saturday (arguably the best defenseman in the NHL right now, Tavares, Marner, Kadri) can be further augmented by the NHL’s second best player, and a guy who outscored Sidney Crosby last year 5v5.