The Toronto Maple Leafs lost in the first round, again, but at least this time they didn’t blow a 3-1 lead to a clearly inferior opponent.
The Tampa Bay Lightning are two-time Cup Champs, and it shows. The Toronto Maple Leafs were the better team, and yet, in game seven, the Lightning just shut the door.
There is no shame in losing to one of the greatest teams of all-time.
The Leafs were the better team throughout the series, and they dominated play in game seven, but the Lightning just didn’t make any errors for the Leafs to capitalize on, and Andre Vasilevskiy showed why the opinion that he is the NHL’s best goalie is pretty much the only consensus opinion in the entire discourse of the NHL.