text: Free wheeling with minimal defence may win a bunch of games in the regular season but does nothing in the playoffs.  Leafs need to build a playoff winning team and games like last night highlight that the approach they employed will be useless come April (assuming the Leafs make the playoffs) when hot goalies are not uncommon and teams play a strong defensive game.
  
  They've got the offensive skills, need to build a better defensive game to complement those goal scoring capabilities....circa the late 70s Habs who had great goaltending, strong defensive core, and offensive forwards...but more importantly employed the right style of play balancing defence with goal scoring.