The Toronto Maple Leafs broke out of their mini-slump with a solid win against one of the NHL’s best teams last night.
The Toronto Maple Leafs got a great game from Petr Mrazek, which was lucky for them, because this one could have gone either way.
The Penalty Killing, however, was flawless, barely allowing a shot or a scoring chance. The Wild had double the Leafs power-play time, but they were no match for the suffocating Leafs’ PK….which almost no team is.
Mitch Marner – who is an early season shooting-percentage slump away from being a Hart Trophy co-contender with Auston Matthews – is the best penalty killer alive, and a big reason why the Leafs have the second best PK in the NHL, despite getting sub-par goaltending since December.