The Leafs’ offensive approach under Craig Berube depends on a hard and heavy forecheck, point shots and bodies around the net. “We gotta find a way to generate shots and get them through and have more traffic there,” Berube said over the weekend. “I didn’t think we won any of the rebound battles.”

The winner was pure Willie magic -- he had just come over the boards and took a stretch pass from Mitch Marner at the offensive blue line, and he wired the puck past Jacob Markstrom's glove on a breakaway.