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Bad Leafs

05/02/2013 at 6:18am EDT

from Terry Koshan of the Toronto Sun,

If you’re going to win in the playoffs, your best players have to be your best players.

It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

But none of Phil Kessel, Joffrey Lupul, Nazem Kadri, Dion Phaneuf nor James Reimer were good on Wednesday night in the Maple Leafs’ first Stanley Cup playoff game in nine years.

Like the majority of their teammates, they stunk....

The Leafs were an intimidated, nervous bunch.

They made too many mistakes.

They had little hope of scoring.

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