The Toronto Maple Leafs looked like crap in their opening game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
There is no sugar coating this one: the Toronto Maple Leafs played an absolutely horrible, undisciplined, unmotivated game.
Yes it is true that the referees were absolutely horrible and if any of us did our jobs as badly as Wes McCauley did his last night we wouldn’t have one. The league appears to go out of its way to look like it doesn’t favour the richest team.
The Lightning had seven power-plays in the opening two periods, and scored four power-play goals.