They were second in goals per game, second in goal differential, and had the league’s best scoring differential at 5-on-5. “I mean, it’s like anything: there’s good and bad,” says defenceman Morgan Rielly, in the middle of a career season by leagues. It’s multiple-shot shifts, it’s having some jam … And so I think we can do a better job there, and I think we can continually get better defensively so we are way better offensively. So we have a lot of work to do.”This Leafs team is more about speed and skill than that kind of heavy, but that’s the push and pull. “I mean, you always measure yourself against the best team because that’s where we want to be,” says Rielly.

Source: thestar January 05, 2019 22:30 UTC