The Maple Leafs certainly have been doing exactly that, going 4-0-2 in his absence as part of their recent hot streak that has them back in the postseason race at 22-15-7 for 51 points, one behind the Washington Capitals for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
That they were able to get themselves back into contention without the services of their leading scorer in Nylander, who has 44 points (15 goals, 29 assists) in 34 games, is a reflection of how good the team has been as a collective of late.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it\u2019s not fun sitting out and watching,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, I mean, the team was playing great. So it\u2019s been fun watching them play great.\u201d<\/p>\n
What has been the key to the team\u2019s turnaround?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say why,\u201d he said. \u201cI think, you know, we\u2019ve just taken it to another level. Everybody\u2019s been more connected. I think that\u2019s a big factor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maple Leafs certainly have been doing exactly that, going 4-0-2 in his absence as part of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-405918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}