1-1 through to the shootout...

Tonight's game against the Buds and the Sens was a tight checking example of semi-elevated play. Yeah, it wasn't the best that we have ever seen, but there was enough passion to keep the knotted game from being totally boring to watch. Toskala made some amazing stops at key times else the game would have been a routing! Not bad for a cocky little twerp only 200 games into his career and sitting third worst in the league... Not bad at all.

Fisher's return to the lineup was felt not only in the game's first and only non-shootout puck in the twine, but also on the body. Just ask Luke Schenn how it felt to be flattened by #12. To the naysayers who claim Fisher isn't worth the money I give you tonight's game as a great example of how he is worth every penny. He hits the ice with such passion and ferocity that even if he doesn't have a scoring chance he still makes sure his presence is felt.

Vermette and Heatley, however, are so gingerly stepping around other players and clutching the sticks way too tightly as of late. Loosen up the play boys and just keep playing your game ... you'll get your biscuits behind the backstop sooner or later. Toskala was murdering the chances, but you can't let that get to you!

Speaking of Toskala, how about Alex Auld? Over shadowed only because Toskala is playing absolute trash hockey as of late, but Auld made some great saves in his own right. Flashing the leather a couple of times and getting back into position when it was needed the most. Like Toskala, if Auld was even a fraction off of his game the score could have been quite different; the Leafs did have their chances.

Overall it was a good game and like Mendez said at the top of the program the Sens "need to get back to remembering how to win". Step one accomplished ... Hard fought win gained. Now let's see a string!