My thoughts on the game was that it was basically a reverse of the Montreal game where we were the team outplaying a team with superior talent but an outstanding goalie performance from them kept it close.
The leafs really didn't skate that well last night, lost tons of puck battles, and we were the better team.
I don't think we can read too much into the performance of smith, he made a couple lucky saves in the last few minutes but still looked shaky but it was good to see him get the bounces when we needed them. I would think it would be a much closer game and probably a flames loss if the leafs were firing on all cylinders last night.
all that said, the forward group looked great, the only exceptions being Mony for most of the game, he looked slow and disinterested and disengaged but he gets a pass on that because when he did show up he got us the win with the huge PP goal and the nice turnover on marner leading to the goal.
The fourth line was really flying last night, and aside from getting caught on an extremely long shift that basically led to the leafs goal after they finally made a change but left the D stranded, they were awesome.
I didn't think ryan was great but his linemates were picking up the slack for him which was good.
Bennett and Backlund continue to be extremely unlucky, Bennett with the puck on his stick for an empty netter that got blown down, and a post, Backlund with a fairly wide open net that he fired into anderson's crotch.
Second line was excellent, and frolik seems to have found his legs which was critical.
All in all a good game but I think a lot of the good stuff might get overplayed as their opponent really didn't show up.
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