I try to like the Leafs. Despite the different colours and subjective opinions, I always mentioned that I appreciate talent when I see it, especially with the upcoming Leafs skilled kids. TOR has a promising future, but when you are up 5-2 in the third and try to cheapshot not only Hansen but a couple of seconds later on D. Sedin in the same shift, you're going to draw blood.
Both dirty hits were blindsided.
Hansen took matters into himself getting an instigator. The Dane never fights. That shift alone changed the whole game. They were eight fights alone in the third, seven misconducts and a death threat. Yeah, when your team is struggling like the Canucks are, Gudbransdon pulled a Milan Lucic at the end of the game, telling M. Martin that he was a dead man.
What happened is that the tough guy jumped on a rookie that was as innocent as his young career, that even Ryan Miller jumped on the Leafs tough guy in trying protect Stetcher, the promising young D-man for VAN.
Both teams meet again in two weeks, it's not often that two teams that meet only twice a year draw this much hate, but the Leafs are just that. I hate them. The likes of Kadri, Martin, cheapshot artists at its best.
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