The big, bad Bruins were out in full force Saturday and the MapleLeafs didn't have an answer for them (lukefoxjukebox)
Then he tweaked his roster, juggled his match-ups, and unleashed the hounds.
"In playoffs, usually the team that loses comes out the next game harder," Maple Leafs defenceman Jake Muzzin said. "We have to understand that." By the end of the first period, two Leafs defenders, Travis Dermott and Jake Muzzin, had faces bloodied by a Bruin’s doing. By the end of the second, mild-mannered Frederik Gauthier had been roped into a retaliation penalty and Nazem Kadri had hobbled to the dressing room after going airborne with a knee-on-knee from Jake DeBrusk.
Leafs Nation, led by GM Kyle Dubas’s grandmother, was outraged by the contest’s rather inconsistent officiating.
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