Certainly, the Leafs loyalists, who gobbled up every last ticket to Game 5 and arrived more giddy than nervous, weren’t hurling boos by Period 2 and glumly filing out the exits with 13-plus minutes in ...

Needing to make a statement in Game 5, the Leafs stepped into the ring, squared up, and took another one in the chops. And there was no question, for anyone in the building, that the night started off ...