The Leafs, the team riding a three-game winning streak, looked sluggish while the Panthers, who’d dropped seven of their last eight coming in, had some jump. But given a 7-2 trouncing at the hands of the Florida Panthers, perhaps it was a little too much of a good thing. “The other thing that has to happen, if you don’t play good, you go to the rink. “That’s the great support we’ve had from Leaf Nation.”The only thing that didn’t show up were the Maple Leafs themselves, figuratively speaking. But the Leafs quickly surrendered a goal to Marchessault just 45 seconds after Komarov’s goal, and the Panthers had their two-goal cushion back going into the second period.

Source: thestar March 15, 2017 02:26 UTC