I hope the holidays treated you all nicely.
For the Leafs, the holiday break was not particularly kind: three losses between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, last year’s starter, Ilya Samsonov, was put on waivers, and a veteran forward, David Kampf, was healthy scratched. Some of the concerns settled down after an excellent win against the LA Kings, which was, for my money, the team’s best win of the season.
I’ve always believed that things never look as good as they seem when teams are winning or as bad as they seem when they are losing.