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Following Ryan O'Reilly

04/24/2023 at 9:59am EDT

Xfinity down in my area, so I am tethered to my phone this morning.

from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

When Ryan O’Reilly positioned himself rather neatly on the right side of the Tampa Bay defenceman, directly in front of Andrei Vasilevskiy, in the final minute of regulation play on Saturday night, he didn’t do that by accident.

He did it by instinct.

Without time to think, with time running out, that’s what winners do.

This is very new for a Leafs team still trying to figure out how to win in the playoffs. They lost Game 1 badly to their own nerves and the lifelong moxie of the Tampa Bay Lightning. They won Game 2 almost as easily and convincingly as they lost Game 1. On Saturday, they got terrific play from goaltender Ilya Samsonov after a rather ordinary first period — and won Game 3.

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KaszyckiandhisKrew

THIS trade is working out for them so far......have to give credit where due.  Time for Vasy to become Vasy again!

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