Maple Leafs a win away from reaching second round for first time since 2004
TORONTO — Jake Muzzin knows about closing out series in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Maple Leafs defenceman won a Stanley Cup as a member of the L.A. Kings in 2014 and is one of just four players in Toronto’s room to play past the first round in the post-season.
Muzzin’s message to his teammates ahead of Sunday’s Game 6 against Boston was simple: don’t be tentative.
“You don’t sit back, that’s for sure. You go after it,” he said Saturday after an optional skate at Scotiabank Arena. “You go after it and it’s the toughest game to win because they’re desperate alright. So we have to be just as desperate and hungry. We can’t sit back and let them take the game to us.
“We have to go out and play our game and use home ice tomorrow as our advantage.”