""I thought they played great," he said. "Had a lot of great chances, so it's a positive thing. I mean, if we had scored one more, we would have won. But yeah, thought we played a good game.""
""I feel like we didn't score in a long time (on the power play)," Nylander said. "Yeah, we should be able to score way more on the power play. But it was a confidence builder and I thought we moved the puck pretty well today and had a few chances, so it's good.""
Bobby McMann served a one-game suspension, prompting Craig Berube to reshuffle lines and place William Nylander on the third line with Dakota Joshua and Nicolas Roy. That trio produced early offense when Joshua scored late in the first on a play set up by Nylander. Nylander added a second assist in the middle frame with a cross-ice power-play feed to Auston Matthews. Toronto converted one of three power-play opportunities, improving from a season-long 13.7% rate and building confidence. The Leafs will face Edmonton next, and their defense has tightened to 1.5 goals against over the last six games after a structural tweak.
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