Game Review: Maple Leafs sit back, throw away Marchenko’s hat-trick night in the third period vs. Buffalo - Maple Leaf Hot Stove
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As bizarre as it seems to write about a 21-year-old second-year player, most of the rest of the team needs to watch the tape of Easton Cowan in the first half of the third period. Cowan was one of the few Leafs still actively trying to play the game rather than standing around and hoping the clock ticks down faster. He was actually moving his feet and tracking with his man through the neutral zone, multiple times disrupting Sabre entries. He turned a puck over on the forecheck, and he registered their only shot on goal in about 11-12 minutes of play. The Sabres’ 4-3 tally is the kind of goal that happens when you’re spending too much time defending, which is frustrating in its own right, but the 4-4 Buffalo goal was just flat-out inexcusable from the Leafs. They had their structure in place through the neutral zone and gave up a mini odd-man rush versus Jake McCabe inside the left half of their defensive zone after Matias Samuelsson skated through them like traffic cones.
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