from Terry Koshan of the Toronto Sun,
Upon further video review, the Detroit Red Wings are playing at a highly competitive level and will be a handful for the Maple Leafs on Saturday night.
That was a theme in the message Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe was imparting on his players at team meetings on Saturday morning, hours before the Leafs meet Detroit to kick off a five-game homestand at Scotiabank Arena.
And Keefe had some recent film as evidence. Late in the third period of the Wings’ game against the Florida Panthers in Detroit on Friday, the Wings threw their bodies in front of at least five shots for blocks in a pressure-filled sequence that lasted nearly a minute.