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Leafs vs. Wild: Seven Takeaways From A 3-2 Loss

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The Leafs played a decent, but losing, game last night. Here are some thoughts.

1. William Nylander is an offensive God: like the lithe Thor he so much resembles, Willie was all over the place last night, the best possession player (on his somewhat struggling possession line) and a star on the PP. After the early fireworks from Matthews and Marner, Willie has been probably the best of the Leafs' three princes in the past two games. His patented break-in strategy of carrying the puck in, curling away from contact and hitting the trailer is simultaneously predictable and hard to stop, because he's such a superb puck-carrier.