from Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star,

When Detroit defenceman Nik Kronwall tossed Auston Matthews into the boards, inducing an awkward fall that appeared to see Matthews land on or around his recently injured shoulder. Kronwall was penalized for boarding and Matthews, though winded, was otherwise unhurt.

And there was no further accounting for the incident. In other words, Kronwall threatened the well-being of Toronto’s best player with an undeniably dirty play and nobody in a blue and white sweater so much as feigned retaliation.

Leafs coach Mike Babcock, asked about this after Friday’s practice in Etobicoke, didn’t seem particularly disturbed by the lack of vengeance.

“You look at our personnel, you look at what we’ve got — we are what we are,” Babcock said....

“Our toughness is our power play,” Babcock said.

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