It would have made for a nice headline, " Raycroft stops fifty shots and Tucker has first six point night of his career in Romp of the Maple Leafs, but alas, it just wasn't to be.
No, on this night it would be " Antropov scores to en 17 game goal less skid " , or ,
" Blake scores again ", or maybe even " Dominic Moore scores career high in goals ".
Yep, you could have taken lot away from this game that saw Toronto lay a rare whoopin' on a team that, granted is missing arguabley their two best offensive players, in Joe Sakic and Paul Stasney, would normily have little trouble with the Buds.
In this 7-4 win it may have actually been a difficult task to pick a N0 1 star of game. Though Jason Blake got the honours, and deservedly so, it could have been any number of other Leafs tonight.
Doninic Moore also had two goals and an assist, Ponikarovsky, Hagman and White also had multipoint nights. Even Toskala, who allowed four goals on just twenty shots, actually made a couple or really good save to help keep the Leafs in it.
This game could have easily slipped away from the Leafs, if it had not been for a timely blown call that went against the Avs. In the third period, Ryan Smyth who unfortunately for him, has a reputation for crashing into opposing goalies,quite probably cost his team the win. On a play to the net, Ryan did in fact interfere with Toskala. I know alot of people will call me, well, names. But if you pay close attention in the highlight videos, you will see that Ryan had actually turned into the front of the net area and was prevented from actually running over Toskala by Shen.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! The Leafs next action comes Saturday at home against Pittsburgh! As always, you can hear all the action live, right here on Bench Brawl!
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