With the home crowd behind them, the Leafs will need to find a way — someway, somehow — to slow down the Bruins’ top line and improve on special teams, and they’ll need to do it with an altered lineup that’s still missing Nazem Kadri and is now without Leo Komarov.
After the Leafs didn’t have the puck much in Game 1, they controlled play more in Game 2, even before they went down in the first period. That said, once four first-period goals go in and score effects set in, it’s hard to do anything but throw out the game tape; it becomes difficult to take any positives away from the hockey game.