Wayne Simmonds spoke Monday morning of it being up to the Maple Leafs to “change the narrative” on their playoff failings.
If killing that early five-minute major didn’t show that the Leafs had no opening-night playoff jitters, fighting through three more short-handed situations and scoring twice on special teams in the middle period removed all doubt.
Marner already had collected two assists before ending his painful scoring drought, slapping his stick loudly for a Morgan Rielly drop pass. faking Vasilevskiy almost right out of his net and burying it. Matthews added another in the third. Defenceman Jake Muzzin had the first Leafs goal, converting Ondrej Kase’s feed from the corner through traffic and past Vasilevskiy late in the first period.
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