Lipstick on a pig.
No matter how much you slap on, it’s still a pig. There’s no hiding that curly tail.
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ 10-5 record, their standing among the top four teams in the Eastern Conference after Wednesday night’s action, their star player Phil Kessel contributing at more than a point-per-game pace—all makeup covering some serious blemishes.
Even before serious injuries to two of their top three centers saw Dave Bolland and Tyler Bozak put on the long-term injured reserve list, the way the Leafs were winning games was proving to be impossible to sustain.
That was pretty obvious in their 4-0 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on the weekend. All the Leafs' flaws were exposed at the end of a road trip through Western Canada during which they somehow previously managed to beat both the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames on back-to-back nights. This was despite the Leafs playing the kind of hockey that puts way too much pressure on the goaltenders.
The Leafs allowed a season-high 47 shots against in Vancouver. They took just 21 of their own ...
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