They needed their best players to be their best players, and their goaltending needed to be a whole lot better than of late. Both of those boxes were ticked as Antoine Bibeau shut out the Bears while William Nylander struck three times to secure a blowout victory in Game 4.
Sheldon Keefe rung the changes after a calamitous game three, deciding to go with seven defensemen, with Brendan Leipsic and Sam Carrick making way for Frederik Gauthier and Viktor Loov.
First Period
Toronto began the opening period with the intensity of a team on the brink.