Yeah, I definitely think it's going to be a process for the Leafs learning Babcock's system. Not going to be a quick fix, at least no completely. I think at some point this year though you'll see the team start to "get it" and be pretty competitive, even if they don't have the talent to really contend for anything.
I know towards the end of the 3rd I would swear he was on acid stone-walling us like he did. Great game by him. Feel like Holtby gave up that fluke goal out of guilt for getting away with one in the 1st.
Burakovsky looked a lot better tonight too. All Swede line was pretty good in general. Helps being able to put Justin Williams on 3rd line too.
Way early to start talking about teams that are out of it, but Metro is already shaping up with a bit of a gap between top 5 and bottom 3. Still only surprise would be Jersey in that top 5 instead of Columbus, everything else is basically what we all expected. If season ended today Metro would be getting 5 in and Detroit/Boston would be shit out of luck (not to forget about Buffalo who's right there with both of those 2 teams chasing top 3 in Atlantic)
That team really put some pieces in place this offseason to be exciting. I'm really interested to see what they do the rest of the year. Prior to Kuznetsov's emergence, I always wanted the Caps to make a move for ROR.
