Even in rout, Leafs show playoff strain

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The Leafs won despite their best early efforts to hamstring themselves

captain John Tavares was handling the unpleasant duty of explaining why the Leafs get the spinnies every time the postseason rolls around.Bad experiences or bad learning? Because while they talk a lot about the latter, the Leafs still don’t seem that quick on the uptake.

Clifford tried putting Colton through the glass and into the front row. That’s a five-minute major for boarding, a game misconduct and, in all likelihood, a three-day pass to whatever local tourist attraction Clifford likes to hang out at when he isn’t working.Losing Clifford isn’t a big talent problem, but it suggests an ongoing learning problem.

But when the coach is using the word “violent” approvingly, it’s not a huge stretch that the player who makes his living dispensing that commodity hears “more violent, please.” The first period was a template for what Toronto would like to do – gain the freedom of the neutral zone, come at Tampa in overlapping waves and make Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy win it on his own.But by the second period, Tampa had pulled a Freaky Friday with its opponents. A couple of especially boneheaded overlapping minors put Auston Matthews on the board and began the rout.

 

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Globe needs to hire someone who actually watches and understands hockey.

WTF. did u even watch the game? Pre-written stories with a few parts of the game plugged in. No wonder people won’t pay for ur stuff.

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