The Maple Leafs coach faces a great challenge in the Stanley Cup playoffs, as the team has historically struggled with penalty killing and special teams performance.
The Keefe Book of Lists heading to the Stanley Cup playoffs. The great challenge for this Maple Leafs coach, under so much pressure with seven games to go in the regular season and so much to address over the next 15 days.This has been an historical problem for the Leafs under both Keefe and before him, Mike Babcock. The Leafs have not ended a playoff season with more goals scored on special teams than they’ve given up over the past seven seasons.
Babcock’s teams lost twice in seven games to Boston. In those 14 games, they gave up 14 power-play goals. They were outscored 14-7 with the man-advantage. There went those series. Penalty killing is a huge component at playoff time. The Leafs were just 73% effective down a man last playoff season. That’s a losing number. Against Boston years back, they were 67% and 56% while down a player. That’s embarrassingly bad. Only against that Montreal team the Leafs had no business losing to were the Leafs acceptable at all killing penaltie
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