The Leafs journeyed to San Jose tonight to take on the grand old men of the Sharks. Brent Burns and Joe Thornton both continue to lead the league in mountain beards.
On the Leafs’ side, this was the first game for new Leafs’ 4C Brian Boyle, now the tallest Leaf. At the other end of the height spectrum, sparkplug rookie RW Mitch Marner was back in the lineup tonight.
Boyle and his new friends got the first shift, but aside from Boyle losing a d-zone faceoff :(, things were uneventful. The first few minutes were mostly neutral zone scuffling for a few minutes.