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Not The Reputation The Leafs Want
by Paul on 11/12/09 at 08:49 AM ET
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from Rob Longley of the Toronto Sun,
Have the Leafs gone soft all of a sudden?
“Any time you make it hard for the other team and make them not want to play you and be apprehensive every time they go into the corner, that’s the mentality you want to have,” Leafs defenceman Garnet Exelby said yesterday. “You want to (have teams) come to Toronto and hate playing here.
“We want that reputation spreading around the league.”
If any future opponent takes a good look at the game tape from Tuesday night, that reputation will be somewhat less daunting.
The Leafs lost countless battles for the puck and were far from the physical team that was promised and had delivered in the first handful of games this season.
The lack of physicality helped create a dreadful atmosphere at the Air Canada Centre, where fans were lulled into a comatose state by the pacificist effort.
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