from Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star,

You know you’re in a hopeless hockey market when the Maple Leafs roll into town and the Florida Panthers announce they’re celebrating something known as “Legacy Saturday.”

What’s it matter that there are Taco Bell franchises with grander traditions and better in-seat ambience than an NHL team born in 1993? Marketing departments must market. So Saturday’s “Legacy” honouree was Bryan McCabe, the former Maple Leafs defenceman, who dropped the ceremonial first puck. If you were fuzzy on McCabe’s connection to the Panthers, he played a grand total of 199 games with the team — approximately 18% of his great NHL career. He played nearly three times as many games in Toronto, playoffs included....

And, yes, the Maple Leafs deployed both a penalty kill and a power play on Saturday night. But their “special” teams have been especially awful of late. The alleged penalty killers offered only token resistance to a Panthers power play that scored on two of its first three opportunities to take a 2-0 lead. That’s four straight games the Maple Leafs have given up at least one goal while short-handed.

The slumping Maple Leafs power play, meanwhile, also continued its swoon. Even gifted a four-minute advantage in the second period, it couldn’t bust loose, somehow finding itself outshot 3-2. Blanked on four opportunities all told, Toronto is now one for its last 22 attempts with the man advantage.

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Highlights of Florida's 4-3 OT can be watched below.