Ride the wave, won’t you, Jack Campbell?
The hottest hand they have between the pipes at the moment stopped 25 shots, and the Toronto Maple Leafs avoided a spectacular disappointment with an unspectacular 4-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators.
It seemed as if the Leafs were stuck in neutral for most of the game, only able to jump into a front-running position when Auston Matthews scored his 42nd goal of the season on an individual effort to match David Pastrnak atop the goal-scoring leaderboard. But despite having more and more of the possession throughout, the Sens simply don’t boast the same sort of high-end skill in the attacking zone, and for that reason could not convert their mild level of sustained effectiveness into anything meaningful on the scoresheet.