The Leafs were considerably more animated off the hop last night: outskating, outshooting, out-shot-attempting and out-drawing the clog-and-congest Capitals. I mean, Ovie scores a great one to start, he scores a power-play goal, and all of a sudden you’re playing down. A frantic hard-check effort to draw even in the waning minutes until Ovechkin nailed his cheap trick hat trick. For three straight games, Toronto had allowed the opposition 10 shots before they’d managed to put a pair on the subhead board. Hectic part of the schedule also, with Leafs making only a brief Air Canada Centre return appearance before heading out on a Western Canada swing.

Source: thestar November 26, 2017 04:23 UTC