The Blues can often be counted on to combine with the Maple Leafs to lay down some really boring hockey. Not always, but sometimes their style of defence and the Leafs’ style of offence turns into an endless trip from the circles through the neutral zone as far as the circles and back again.
Will we get that? Or something much more fun instead?
First Period
So, the Maple Leafs are clearly in need of a defenceman. We all know that. Liljegren and Sandin together can make a good third pair. Liljegren and Dermott can’t, and Sandin playing the right side on the second pair is not quite it.