Those boos ringing in the ears of the Maple Leafs have nothing to do with Halloween.
Standards for Toronto have certainly slipped when playing a 1-6-1 team can be labelled ‘must-win’, but the result failed to take heat off Keefe and Dubas.
The Leafs just couldn’t let good, sustained effort elapse without some kind of self-inflicted wound. One was committed by Filip Kral, in his second NHL game and looking good until he tried to put a pass through Derek Grant at centre just as the middle period ended. It required Kallgren to make a breakaway save and Matthews to take a slashing call.Article content
Shortly thereafter, Kerfoot had a breakaway hampered enough to warrant a penalty shot, but found no room on Gibson as he came in too tight and shot wide. Anaheim tied it 3-3 when defenceman Dmitry Kulikov poked the puck past John Tavares, circled the net and beat Kallgren on the wraparound.Article content“All losses suck,” Keefe said of the manner they frittered away Sunday’s lead. “In the second period, we looked a lot more like we can be. We’ve struggled in our own end, then you have a lot of tired people on the ice who can’t get off and it snowballs. A huge shorthanded goal to start the third, then you give them life back.
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