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    Brown paces Maple Leafs over Panthers

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    Post by jedi17 Fri 18 Nov 2016, 7:37 pm

    Brown paces Maple Leafs over Panthers

    TORONTO – For the Toronto Maple Leafs, there’s really no place like home.
    With the quarter mile post of the NHL season fast approaching, the Maple Leafs are 7-2 in the friendly confines of the Air Canada Centre after pounding the Florida Panthers 6-1 on Thursday night. Rookie Connor Brown led the way with the first four-point and multi-goal game of his career. It was the fourth time in their last five home games the Maple Leafs have scored six goals, who move to 8-6-3 on the season.
    “It was one of those games it felt like the puck was following us a bit. We were able to get a couple good bounces and put a couple home,” Brown said. “We’re comfortable here [at home]. We’re getting better and better each game we play. It’s only up from here.”

    Brown became the fifth player to record a four-point game for the Maple Leafs already this season. And many of the young stars have had their moments to shine. On Tuesday night it was Mitch Marner with a goal and two assists who helped propel James van Riemsdyk to his second career hat trick and the Maple Leafs to a 6-2 victory. Marner currently leads Toronto's rookies with seven goals and 16 points, adding to his total on Thursday with a stunning individual effort on the breakaway to undress goaltender James Reimer.



    Unheralded Brown breaks out for Leafs
    TH2N praises Connor Brown's brilliant performance against the Panthers on Thursday night, and dissects Auston Matthews' continued struggles after the rookie's goalless drought reached 11 games.
    “You watch Mitch’s goal tonight, you watch Auston [Matthews] play, you watch [Zach] Hyman and [Brown], I don’t think we thought these guys were going to be this impactful,” said Morgan Rielly. “I think they’ve all had their moments.”
    For Brown, having the best statistical night of his NHL career was a long time coming. Playing on the matchup line with Nazem Kadri and Leo Komarov, Brown’s workmanlike attitude wasn’t translating to points on the score sheet. To find success he needed to trust himself more.
    “I’m slowly getting more comfortable with the puck and more comfortable making plays,” he said. “Offensively it was a bit of a slow start but I feel good defensively and I feel like I’m in the right spots.”
    “He’s a good player, but we know he’s got the ability to score and make plays and we know he’s going to score in the league,” head coach Mike Babcock added. “He can play with or without the puck, so it was nice to see him get rewarded.”
    Brown had an excellent chance at the end of the third period to get the hat trick, but Reimer got just enough on the save to thwart his attempt.


    Brown getting more comfortable with the puck
    After scoring two goals and adding two assists, Connor Brown talks to Mark Masters about his big night and says it's nice to contribute offensively.
    “It doesn’t surprise me [how good Brown is],” Marner said. “I played against him a couple years in the OHL and saw how good he was there. You knew he was going to break out eventually and tonight’s the night that he did. Going forward he’s going to keep being the same player.”
    The chorus throughout the dressing room of how comfortable the team is at home may show most obviously in a renewed confidence during the third period. Whereas early in the season the whole team was more prone to sitting back, the Maple Leafs are more apt at home to try and continue dictating the pace. On Thursday they didn’t come out of the gate well to start either the second or third period, getting hemmed into their zone for much of the first five minutes, but Frederik Andersen did enough to keep the Panthers at bay.
    “We didn’t start the periods the way we’d like. They pushed a little bit harder than we did,” Andersen said. “Once we got [going] each period, we took over and scored on our chances so that was good. You see the guys working hard, and it’s good to see different guys getting on the score sheet.”
    Now Toronto gets ready to head back to Montreal for Saturday night’s game against the Canadiens, where they were narrowly defeated 2-1 last month. The Maple Leafs will face the league’s top team while on an offensive roll. Even if the goals don’t come as easily outside their home base, Babcock’s message was simple.

    “Just keep [winning],” he said. “As we learn to play better without the puck and do less silly things with the puck, we’ll win more on the road.”
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