As Ray Ferraro put it on the TSN broadcast, “it was preseason for everybody.” In addition to the usual preseason sloppiness, two of the goals scored in this game shouldn’t have counted — or in the case of Frank Corrado’s goal, didn’t even cross the goal line — and there were a rash of bad penalty calls, in the first period especially. That said, enough complaining — Leafs hockey is back, unofficially.
Some thoughts on some players on the bubble:
Kerby Rychel – Came to Kadri’s defence in a quick fight with an unwilling combatant in Andreas Englund, for which he was assessed a match penalty and ejected from the game.