I don’t think they decided to at all. It looked like confusion. An inability to choose the right thing to do at the right moment. I saw effort from a few players. Saw Matthews and Sandin go through the trap. But as a group, there wasn’t any sign of communicating the same game plan. Saw Keefe yapping on the bench, so I suspect he was trying to relay the specifics of the plan. And full credit to the Canes for resembling a desperate team. But I don’t think decision was at the fore of the Leafs that night. I think they reacted in several instances without much thought.
And I don’t know what’s more horrific. Knowing what to do and not being able to do it. Or forgetting what to do having once known what to do.
But deciding to do what they did Saturday night? No I don’t think so. Because if that was proven to be a decision then...That renders this group far worse than being simply “entitled”.