Toronto & Dallas Triumph
Maple Leafs 4 – Stars 3 (SC QTR Finals 2-0 Toronto) Toronto only took 20 SOG and made the Florida netminder appear quite pedestrian, the referees also gave a Maple Leafs center two roughing penalties at the same time even though one of his “victims” received an embellishment penalty.
Toronto had a strong response in the third period just 17 seconds after Florida tied the game at three with RW Marner putting the Maple Leafs back in front 4-3 and Toronto convincingly held off the Panthers the rest of the way.
Stars 3 – Jets 2 (SC QTR Finals tied 1-1) The Stars RW Rantanen scored a natural hat trick in the second period and the Jets could not recover and if Winnipeg plans to win down in Texas, they had better begin scoring on the power play.
TONIGHT’S MATCHUPS
Hurricanes vs Capitals 7pm (SC QTR Finals 1-0 Carolina)
Oilers vs Knights 9:30pm (SC QTR Finals 1-0 Edmonton)
Buffalo Winter 
What I observed in the Maple Leafs and Panthers matchup was that the Maple Leafs overwhelmingly took the puck away from their opponents and during a majority of the game adeptly broke up the plays attempted by the Panthers.
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I agree, the Maple Leafs are playing so strong that I wished I picked them to go further in the bracket, lol
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