We’ve obviously had some Saturday night Leafs games over the past 16 months, but something just feels different assessing these games played in front of a capacity crowd at Scotiabank Arena.
Maybe it’s energy from the fans. Maybe it’s the fact that normalcy is slowly creeping back into our lives. Whatever it is, I can certainly tell you it’s made these games much more entertaining to analyze than I thought they’d be.
In tonight’s rematch against Ottawa, things went much more according to plan for Toronto. They controlled the run of play at 5v5, got some goal support up front, and as it turns out, didn’t end up needing University of Toronto goaltender, Alex Bishop, in what could have been a David Ayers 2.