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Game in 10: Ilya Samsonov continues to assert game-one starter status in shutout win over Ottawa

Your game in 10:

1. If you were told before the game Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner would be held scoreless and the top line would lose the shot-attempt battle in their matchup against Tim Stutzle’s line by a count of 15-2 in unblocked shot attempts and 8-1 in shots at five-on-five, you might not have assumed a Leafs win was in the forecast.

Especially not after a first period in which the team generated a total of .15 expected goals as the recent trend of sleepwalking into games offensively continued in this contest — possibly a byproduct of the Leafs playing teams more desperate than them down the stretch.