Eat Sleep Leafs

For all the talk about goaltending and defence, Tuesday’s game ended with Ron Wilson furious over the offence. Or lack there of it.

“We stunk. Period.” Wilson said.

“We had no offence at all. One of Pat Quinn’s best lines, ‘you couldn’t find half our forwards with a Norden bomb site tonight and if you know what a Norden bomb site is from World War II…but we’ll find most of our forwards tomorrow.”

The Leafs finished 10th in goals per game last season, but still questions persisted heading into the season that a lack of goal-scoring might rear it’s ugly head at some point.

It was only the third game and the Leafs had scored seven in the first two, but Wilson was clearly displeased.

“That was almost an embarrassing effort from seven or eight guys we’ll really counting on heavily,” he said.

“Playing on the perimeter, not wanting the puck, not willing to take a hit to make a play, jittery when you do have the puck. We need a much better effort from people we’re counting on.”

“I think we definitely didn’t play our best the first two periods,” Matt Stajan, the Leafs lone goal-scorer said after the game.

“If we play the full game like we did the third period, we have no problem winning that game. That’s on us for coming out the way we did.”

Just thirteen shots were thrown the way of Sens goalie Pascal Leclaire over the first two periods, an output the Leafs bested in the third period alone.

Although it’s still supremely early, Wilson said changes may be coming.

“We’ve got to figure out whether it’s line combinations, whether it’s calling some of the guys up from the minors who provided the spark in the preseason,” Wilson said.

“You know there a few guys who made the team based on last year, not on what they did in training camp. I need to find a way to light the fire under a few guys rear-ends here.”

The players can expect a bag skate at the Mastercard Centre on Wednesday morning.

“We don’t need a puck,” Wilson said. “We need to skate without the puck.”

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Viktor Stalberg was rocked by an Anton Volcheknov hit in the first period and didn’t return.


-J.Siegel

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