Yes Patrick, I know, I owe you 5 bucks!
On a night that I fully expected the Leafs to come out in a foul mood after being beaten handily the night before, they, well, didn't. Right now, kids like Christian Hanson are probably sitting on the bench thinking to themselves, ' what the hell did I do?'
I suppose that it could be a little difficult to 'get it up' for the remainder of the season when you know it's essentially pointless, but still.
The Leafs second loss in a row came at the hands of the suddenly good looking and tactical, Montreal Canadiens. Les Canadiens opened up a 4-0 lead before the Leafs finally responded early in the the third to make things still not even close.
“We’re trying to grab as many points as we can and move up the standings,” forward Chris Higgins. “The confidence in the room is back—that’s pretty obvious to tell. I think we’ve got four games left here and if we continue to play the way we’ve been playing the last couple games, then we’ll have the right mind-set for the playoffs.”
Montreal scored twice more and Boyd Devereaux added a short handed marker for the Leafs, in the end, the Leafs lost 6-2.
Defenseman Mathieu Schneider left the game with an upper-body injury in the first period, and leading scorer Andrei Markov was knocked out by Mikhail Grabovski’s hit with 7 minutes to play. I love that!
The Leafs next action comes Tuesday night when they visit the Devils in New Jersey. As always you can hear all of the action live, right here, on Bench Brawl!
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