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HEAD COACH
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Pat Quinn
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ROSTER
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C - Mats Sundin, Steve Sullivan, Alyn McCauley. LW -
Fredrik Modin, Steve Thomas, Todd Warriner, Derek King, Kris
King, Igor Korolev, Garry Valk, Ladislav Kohn, Lonny Bohonos. RW
- Sergei Berezin, Tie Domi, Mike Johnson, David Nemirovsky. D -
Bryan Berard, Sylvain Cote, Dimitri Yushkevich, Alexander
Karpovtsev, Jason Smith, Daniil Markov, Glen Featherstone, Tomas
Kaberle, Yanick Tremblay, Chris McAllister, Dallas Eakins. G -
Curtis Joseph, Glenn Healy.
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INJURIES
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Igor Korolev, lw (broken leg, indefinite).
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TRANSACTIONS
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5/2/99 - Dallas Eakins Called up from minors (St.
John's of the AHL).
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GAME RESULTS
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First Round vs Philadelphia: Leafs won 4-2
4/22 Philadelphia L 3-0
4/24 Philadelphia W 2-1
4/26 at Philadelphia W 2-1
4/28 at Philadelphia L 5-2
4/30 Philadelphia W 2-1 OT
5/02 at Philadelphia W 1-0
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STANDINGS
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Northeast Division GP W L T PTS GF GA
y-Ottawa 82 44 23 15 103 239 179
x-Toronto 82 45 30 7 97 268 231
x-Boston 82 39 30 13 91 214 181
x-Buffalo 82 37 28 17 91 207 175
Montreal 82 32 39 11 75 184 209
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TEAM NEWS
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by Jonah A. Sigel, Toronto Correspondent
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Leafs Win, Leafs Win!
Out played, out sized, out scored but in the end, the team left
standing was your 1998-99 Toronto Maple Leafs!
They beat the big bad wolf, they huffed and huffed and blew the
house down. In the end, the Flyers could do nothing but whine
about penalties and go home. Never mind the 0-6 on power plays
in game six, including five in a row and four in succession in
the second period. It was a blatant, yet not lethal elbow by
John LeClair that gave the Leafs, owner of one of the worst power
plays in the league, the opportunity to go ahead 1-0. So they
did, Sergei Berezin buried a rebound from Bryan Berard who had
the game of his life. As the clock struck 59 seconds to go in
the third, the Leafs went up 1-0, an insurmountable lead the
Flyers could not tackle.
This was a series that should not have gone this far or this
long. For the most part, the Leafs were never allowed to play
their game. The highest scoring team in the league was held to
nine goals in six games. However, as ruff and rugged as the
Flyers were in the end it was not enough. The Leafs survived
playing the Flyers' game. They got garbage goals when it
counted, key hits when they needed them, and for the most part
stayed out of the box when they had to.
More impressive is who the Leafs used to get there. Mats Sundin
was invisible offensively the entire series, it was not until
game five that Yanic Perreault scored and of course Berezin is
Berezin. Playing with the lego type helmet to protect an injured
face, he was able to get to the net when need be and score the
goals that the Leafs desperately needed.
As for the Flyers, they simply could not come up big when they
needed to. In the end, it was an owner left making a fool of
himself in front of the world crying about one call. It took,
gulp, Barry Melrose to tell it like it was. Melrose, on ESPN's
NHL Tonight, claimed that in crying to and about the officiating
Snider and Neilson took the blame away from where it belonged,
the players. For it was the players who went 0-6 that night and
who were unable to score when it counted.
So the Leafs get the Pens, but it is almost as if it doesn't
matter. After not being in the playoffs the last three
years, getting there was enough. Competing with the Flyers was
great, beating them tremendous. So whatever happens, happens.
As it sits tonight, the Leafs are the highest ranked Eastern team
left in the playoffs and that ain't bad.
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