Welcome back in the playoffs Maple Leafs, or as their residency has come to be known – ground floor of Heartbreak Hotel.
“You have to recognize the work that goes into those 82 games,” Matthews said of Tuesday’s time-out. “But the job’s nowhere close to being finished. We have to focus on the remaining games. When that comes, we have to be ready.”
Had the Leafs’ playoff trauma not been so ingrained in the room among veterans and throughout the fan base and media, there’d be more revelling in the club’s longest streak of post-season qualification in 40 years.Article content That trumped the doom and gloom regular season scenario cast last summer, many convinced the Leafs would struggle to recover from another Game 7 loss, that Keefe wouldn’t survive a slow start or that one or two of Florida, Buffalo, Ottawa and Detroit had improved enough to threaten Toronto’s post-season position.
“We’re not really focused on the future or past, we’re just here now with another good opportunity,” said winger Mitch Marner, who shares Matthews’ desire to prove at last the club’s Core Four can win at clutch time.
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