No.
The Hawks played fine in the 1st period. The Leafs top guys were an absolute non-factor through the vast majority of the 1st period. In the second they were complete garbage. Missed passes. Looked slow. Blown coverage and assignments by wingers, particularly Kane. No hard back-checking. The entire 2nd and 3rd period the vast majority of the team looked like they had no desire to play anymore, or had no legs left, or both. Keith must have literally had his brains leak out of his ****ing ears because he looked like Norris Keith in the 1st, and then looked like AHL Keith through the next two. Doesn't help when the refs are just tossing people out of the faceoffs for seemingly no reason, to the point your captain starts to visibly get agitated. Then throw in the amount of soft ass penalties that take the entire flow out of the game... Like 75% of the penalties weren't a penalty last year... And I'm talking about them on both teams. It was a disgustingly bad officiated game that seemingly was reffed by ****ing mite refs.
That Leafs team wasn't a world beater, by any means. If you think Toronto clowned the Hawks that bad in the 2nd and 3rd because they're SO MUCH BETTER to the point that the Hawks just "didn't have the ability to stop them", after what the Hawks did to the Pens and the Jackets, then IDK what to tell you JD.
This entire post is ridiculous to read, tbh.
Talk about a hot take.