Dave Feschuk: Have the Maple Leafs really changed? Loss against Bruins started to give us some answers
, veteran players who ought to know better by now, gifting the Bruins goals on sloppy giveaways in the Toronto zone.Said Rielly: “If you look at their goals, we’re kind of almost handing it to them.”
That’s the question, though. Do the Leafs actually know better? Or, when faced with an opponent with proven playoff pedigree — a team that, unlike the Leafs, has historically demonstrated it knows better when it actually matters — will the Leafs reveal themselves for who they’ve always been: devil-may-care gamblers at heart who, for all their talk of discipline, still treat the puck with too little care, too often.
And maybe, too, you can’t overlook the fact that the season-long battle with injuries on the back end is finally causing noticeable strain. On Saturday, with, Timmins was clearly swinging above his weight, playing a first-pairing role with a third-pairing game. And as much as Rielly downplayed the difficulty of playing alongside Timmins —“You have to be able to jell. It’s really not an issue at all.
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