Top three centres in Matthews, Tavares, and Kerfoot have shown up, though all three have made glaring and costly mistakes. Kerfoot failed on the clearance at the end of the powerplay that led to Dubois’ first goal, Matthews almost caused the Leafs to lose near the end of the third period, and Tavares’ piss poor shot selection led to the OT winner. But overall, those three guys have been great. Robertson has been excellent coming in as an 18 year old rookie. That’s about it for forwards. I guess Clifford has been damn good too.
On the backend Rielly has been good and Muzzin when he was in was great. Every other defenseman has sucked or been average at best.
Freddy is the same Freddy he’s always been in the playoffs for us. He’s solid but he won’t steal you a game. He just won’t. When the team is flailing and needs the goalie to save them, he is incapable of doing so. Yes the team should know better and should just close out the game, but they don’t. Sometimes teams need their goalie to bail them out. Rask has done it, Vasilevsky has done it. Murray did it when the Pens were winning Cups, Holtby has done it. Andersen has not and I don’t think he will.