November Wrap Up

November has come and gone once again and the Leafs have come out the other side in pretty decent shape. Finishing the month at 7-6-1 the Leafs are still 2^nd in the division and 4^th in the conference, now when u compare this Novembers to lasts where the Leafs went 3-8-3 the jump in records is astonishing! At the beginnings of November I said the Leafs needed 8 wins this month, they fell one win short of that bu still did very well considering the injuries they sustained.

 Last night the Leafs played the Bruins who were 11-0-1 in the month of November with a chance to finish November 1^st in the conference… however despite a good game by the Leafs they came up short the wrong end of a 6-3 score. However I do not believe that this score is indicative of the Leafs play last night. The Leafs held their own against the defending champs despite 5 penalties including a long 5-3 and some non-calls by the refs. The Leafs could have won this game if not for a few bad shifts. Now normally I try to stay pretty positive in my blog and don’t go on long rants but today is the exception.

In the third period last night the Leafs were down 4-3 to the Boston Bruins they had just cut a 2 goal deficit to 1 and had a chance to make a comeback to tie the game. Then they had a horrible shift… a bad change leads to Schenn getting stuck on the ice he tries to clear a puck but fans on it then all hell breaks loose. The bruins’ player takes the puck behind the Leafs net and we stand there watching him like he’s Wayne Gretzky while he plays with himself for like 20 seconds! On top of this we do not cover any of the players in front of the net despite not challenging the man with the puck at all! Eventually this leads to the bruins 5^th goal and the end of the comeback for the Leafs!

Ok that’s it end of rant. So now we enter December and the first game is against the Bruins in Boston hopefully the Leafs can split the home and home and get December off on the right foot. The Leafs enter December with a record of 14-9-2, with 13 games this month the Leafs will need to be over .500 once again 8 wins should be the target this month to stay in the playoffs. A record of 8-3-2 for the month would be great, would give the Leafs a 22-12-4 record overall. Here’s to a great month of hockey GO LEAFS GO!!

Congrats to Joffrey Lupul on being 3^rd star of the month