After 3 straight overtime games, Washington had better legs tonight than Columbus, despite being the older team. (Panarin hitting the post in OT last night, Columbus was that close to a 3 zip lead).
Meanwhile Rask outplays Anderson in Toronto. Plus 2 big (Devils’ like) defensive mistakes on bad pinches by the Toronto defense lead to 2 odd man rushes, where Boston scores. Marchands goal a beautiful pass by Pasternak on a 2 on 1.
Toronto is in a quandary. Their rebuild went fast but they’ve plateau’d out. Their current personnel can’t make them better then a poor first round team. What will be stage 2 of their build, if there is one.