Craig Berube, Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube addressed the media after his team\u2019s 4-1 win over the Florida Panthers, which improved the Maple Leafs\u2019 record to 20-15-7. <\/p>\n
On the team\u2019s performance:<\/p>\n
Good team effort. Everybody had a part in it tonight.<\/p>\n
It was great having Carlo back tonight. I thought he played well. He has been out for a long time, but I thought he really did a good job there tonight.<\/p>\n
All around, it was a good team effort. The penalty kill had to do a good job, especially early in the third, with the penalties starting the period and then right after again. Getting those kills was big.<\/p>\n
On the meaning of a win over the Panthers:<\/p>\n
Well, it always means a lot playing against Florida or Tampa. You create some rivals against these teams from playing against them in the playoffs last year. It was similar to when Ottawa came in here. Those games are intense, and it is going to be intense. We know that.<\/p>\n
When you play Florida, you have to match the physicality and match how they\u2019re coming at you all night. They are going to put it in (deep) and come at you. I thought we did a good job for two periods of exposing that at times and creating some odd-man rushes and breakaways a couple of times. We did a good job with that.<\/p>\n
Everybody had a part in it tonight, which was good. We needed that.<\/p>\n
On the hit from behind on Scott Laughton by Eetu Luostarinen:<\/p>\n
Well, it is a penalty. That is a penalty all day long. They call that 95% of the time, but they didn\u2019t call it that time. That\u2019s whatever. I am not going to complain about it.<\/p>\n
No call by the refs on this \ud83e\uddd0 pic.twitter.com\/x1LzRWer58<\/a><\/p>\n