This was not the kind of hockey Toronto envisioned playing with four weeks to go until the playoffs. reporterchris has more after another tough Leafs loss:
in for Andersen to start the second period, only a few minutes sooner than he did during a 6-2 loss to the Lightning on Monday, but it didn’t produce a big response.
The Leafs patched a few holes, but still saw Nikita Zaitsev back off enough to allow Perlini to thread a pass over to Alex DeBrincat for the 5-0 goal before Andreas Johnsson tipped a Morgan Rielly shot home for his 20th of the season. Auston Matthews, one of the few Toronto players with jump throughout this game, banked home a shot and Rielly scored on a power play just past the midway point of the third period. John Tavares then pulled them back to 5-4 with Sparks on the bench for an extra attacker.This was not the kind of hockey Toronto envisioned playing with four weeks to go until the playoffs.
Still, after the bad loss to the Lightning and a rest day on Tuesday, they were expecting much better than this against a Blackhawks team hovering below the playoff cut-off line in the Western Conference. “I could tell you this: I’m usually the sun gets up the next day [kind of guy] and I bounce back like you can’t believe,” Babcock said Wednesday morning. “Yesterday was a little harder.”
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