They had the assignment in front of them. But Florida was finishing all their checks. There was a solid like two and a half-minute stretch where they were getting hemmed in their net. But the Leafs set the tone, and they just gave up on it.Īnd they allowed Florida to take that tone the Leafs created and then just intensify it in the second period. With all of that- Michael Bunting gets cross-checked in the side of the head, in the ear, and that again. Sam Bennett literally takes his arm as a stopgap, grabs him, hits him against the boards, and then literally Rock Bottoms him onto the ice. He laughed, even though Matthew Knies is going for the puck behind the net. I don't even know if it's going to get looked at, probably not. It was a stupid pile of stupid with Sam Bennett. They pushed play, even with all the stupidness that took place, Matthew Knies getting that stupid- I don't even know what to call it. It's just so frustrating that they started this at home. You wasted the goals that you scored on him. And shot after shot, chance after chance, Bobrovsky stopped every single one. And you know why they wasted it? Because they tried to get it back. And it wasn't even the full game, just those couple of minutes.

He has looked stellar game one and game two. The way that Bobrovsky has been playing this entire playoffs, 2 goals is wicked. 2 goals against Bobrovsky? The way he's been playing this- not even just this series. And then they just stopped playing to start the period. Power play comes up, Marner to Ryan O'Reilly, goal. They had a strong shift in the offensive zone, goal. The fourth line with Sam Lafferty, new speed, new strength. They were the first team to actually start hitting, throwing hits, being hard on the forecheck. And that was it.Īnd what's so frustrating about that, what's so frustrating is that, from the beginning of the game, the Leafs were the better team again. Samsonov is cheating to the left, doesn't read the pass, goal 3-2. He makes this backwards pass to Matthews. Mitch Marner makes a weird pass decision.

Nylander turns over the puck in the neutral zone, goal. The Leafs were up 2-1 in the game, a bad icing call. 47 seconds into the second period of the game, it was over. I'm not talking about at the beginning, right at the start of the game. I'm not talking about 47 seconds in overtime.

OMAR: Takeaway number one, the game ended in 47 seconds, literally. Toronto set the tone early in Game 2 of their second-round series with Florida but when the Panthers turned up the pressure, the Maple Leafs didn't seem to have a game plan to respond.

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