For the Toronto Maple Leafs, the gist of the pre-game chatter was that this was a ‘measuring stick’ game.
Except that it wasn’t.
When you’ve played the last quarter season at a pace that would make you one of the best teams of all time, you don’t have anything to prove or to measure.
The Toronto Maple Leafs faced Tampa twice already this year, and in both those games, they completely dominated.
So instead of overreacting to a crappy game, we should remember that when the Leafs actually iced a full lineup, they dusted the best team in the NHL.