I politely disagree with Keefe's assessment of tonight's game. We generated a lot of good chances. This easily could have been one of those 4-5 goal games. They had an elite goalie in net who stopped most of what he saw.
The first period was uninspiring, but we looked a lot like the team full of offensive weaponry we are in the 2nd and 3rd.
They miss Rielly. They are significantly worse offensively and defensively without him. He's probably been a more impactfull loss than any of Tavares, Marner or Freddy this year.
He is criminally underrated. Especially defensively.