Where are the trolls who used to post after each game the Leafs record to date vs. the previous year making some inane comment about how the Leafs are a bad team and how they continue to be a bad team.  Those trolls would proclaim their deep hockey insight by illustrating statistics to prove them right.  Where are those stats again?  Wonder why they disappeared from the trolls' diatribe.  Hmmm, I wonder.

Leafs effort was a better one last night.  They held the lead and played a tighter defensive game.  2 points they should have obtained which they did against a bottom feeder.  Will that effort and play work against the elite teams?  Likely not....too many errors and sloppy play still occurred that the Stars could not convert, but should have.  More work on the defensive structure is required.