I've seen every Leaf game this year and I would say this was one of their worse played games. Boston looked good, but the Leafs had so many huge giveaways throughout the whole game it made it pretty easy for the Bruins.
Plus it doesn't help that the Leafs have Carlyle as their coach. I seriously question playing two goons on the 4th line in the playoffs. One isn't even needed, let alone two! And putting Kadri with MacArthur and Komarov? The former is absolutely useless, and the latter you're not going to get much offense. And why would Carlyle switch up the bottom 3 lines for the first playoff game? I'm not one to blame a loss on a coach, but a lot of Carlyle's decisions have a lot of Leaf fans scrathing their heads.
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