There was really no excuse for the Leafs tonight. They are about as healthy as you can be in this league at this point, they were off since Saturday, and they were playing at home. The Leafs put 24 shots on net against a mediocre Kings team and for most of the game, onlookers were rightly wondering where all of their star players were.
During the second intermission broadcast, Jeff O’Neill called the Leafs’ best players “invisible,” and he wasn’t exaggerating. The Leafs won the game after Auston Matthews and William Nylander each picked up a pair of points in the third period to go along with some timely saves from Frederik Andersen.