Toronto Maple Leafs Face Crucial Game 5 Against Ottawa

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00:00We have a series that's setting up that should have been a walk away for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

00:04Let one slip away in overtime. Now the pressure soars it comes back to Toronto in this game

00:08because you can't extend this series and then all of those ghosts of the Maple Leafs past

00:13start to come to life here. Ottawa and Toronto tonight a heavy favorite here at the FanDuel

00:17Sportsbook Pete for Toronto to win this game. Are we looking at a closeout situation and

00:22will it be closed out tonight for the Maple Leafs? I think Toronto will close this series out at some

00:29point. When is the big question? I could see anything as crazy as Ottawa wins this game and

00:35then wins game six and then we have a dicey game seven in Toronto's barn and maybe they break through

00:41at that point. But yeah, you look at the Matthews, Marner, Taveras, Nylander era. I think it's like

00:50they're one and 12 in their last 13 games, potential closeout games. So that is not great, especially

00:56when I'm talking about, you know, the shot attempts differential. Look at some of the league leaders

01:02this season. Tim Stutzla in the postseason is second in that category and then Brady Kachuk

01:09is seventh. So they got two of the top 10 there. I mentioned they were leading in shot attempts

01:14percentage as a team. So far this postseason, as lopsided as you have in any series so far

01:20in Ottawa's favor. But again, Toronto has excellent goaltending, better than usual with Anthony Stolarz.

01:28He's been the X factor so far in the games that they've won and the coaching with Craig Berube,

01:33past Stanley Cup champion. That's what could finally be different about these Maple Leafs this year. I

01:38know we seem to think about it every year, but those two factors, the goaltending and the coaching

01:43is much better than it's been in years past.