Leafs had a dismal effort on Saturday

[Steven Sanyal]

The Leafs had many new faces in the lineup on Saturday, but little good
did these new players do. Although this team looks talented on paper
like last year's who knows how they will do?

The Leafs allowed Pittsburgh to skate around at free will and utilize
their best players - handing them an 8-3 victory and not challenging the
Pens after the 1st period.

The boys in blue had better learn pretty quick that their way to win has
got to be a physical, defensive game - or else we are in for another
rocky season.

Steven Sanyal
steven...@utoronto.ca

[Jonathan Millman]

> The boys in blue had better learn pretty quick that their way to win has
> got to be a physical, defensive game - or else we are in for another
> rocky season.
>
> Steven Sanyal
> steven...@utoronto.ca
>
>

Sorry, but I have to disagree. I watched most of the games last year,
and found the biggest frustration to me was watching them try to sit on a
lead playing the defensive game, just to squander it. I think Burnsy is
a great coach, but this tactic had got to go -- at least for a
team like the leafs. They have to play 60 minutes of hard agressive
hockey to win each game this season.

Just my $.02
Jon