from Rob Longley of the Toronto Sun,

The Leafs may not shock the world in results this season, but if the effort in Game 1 is any indication, it will become a welcome relief to fans who suffered through the miserable, indifferent slide to end last season.

In other words, the give-a-bleep-meter in the 2015-16 opener was immeasurably higher than it was in the final 30 of the previous campaign.

At the very least, Babcock’s players appear to have received the message delivered through a high-volume, up-tempo training camp in which they were tutored in the structured system that made him such a success with the Detroit Red Wings.

The diligence and attention to detail certainly kept them in the game for much of the night on Wednesday.

“We had good structure, we played hard enough,” Babcock said. “We can still get way better, obviously. There’s no moral victories in the NHL, but the process is there and they are trying.”

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