Leafs Win 7-3 over the Penguins! 12/20/08

After the Leafs's loss in Boston two nights ago, Ron Wilson tried to get the players re-energized for the next game against Sidney Crosby and the Penguins. The offense was not a problem at all in Boston, scoring 5 goals, but the defence and goaltending was just attrocious. Toskala got yanked in the first 5 minutes of the game, letting in 2 goals.

But the Leafs bounced back form the wild game, and just obliterated the Penguins, outscoring them 5-1 and out shooting them 33-13 at the second intermission. Jeremy Williams picks up another goal after begin called back from the Marlies. I'm getting a really good feeling about Jeremy Williams, hes already got 4 goals in 5 games! And congratulations to Jonas Frogren for getting his first goal of his NHL career. Antropov and Kaberle both pick up another 3 point night.

Don Cherry was actually pissed at the Leafs after their win, because they weren't getting physical enough after their huge lead. Maxime Talbot started shoving Niklas Hagman around and Talbot eventually took off the gloves while Hagman kept them ON and kept his head down as Talbot threw punches at this face. Later on Crosby starts to shove and exhange some words with Grabovski, but he just skated away. That was probably why the Penguins felt good about the game although they lost. After that Don Cherry quoted "They might have won a battle, but they'll lost the war if they keep playing like this."

I think all the Leafs need to do is focus on winning games right now, and gainning some ground in the Eastern Conference, they currently sit at 11th place. But they have won 4 out of their last 5! I hope they keep this up for the rest of the season so they could break their playoff slump