2nd Period Scraps Between Leafs & Sens

2nd Period Scraps Between Leafs & Sens

Those playoff games are huge and they want more. That puck turned over. A chance in front and a back hand sent wide by Bath. Drew fires it back and now fed a hit on the right wing. Big hit there by Cleven stepping into Pazetta who gets the license plate. Then Rafi stepped up. Panthers are going to drop the gloves for Marshall Rafi. And David Brock gets caught up in the action here. Well, the battle of Ontario is back on. Pazetta drops his gloves with Ridley Gregs. The initial hit on Pazetta and the response from Ravi. I I an initial hit from I believe I don’t know if it was Cleven who threw the hit on the far side. I mean that’s what set all this off. It’s we haven’t seen a lot of like weight being thrown around thus far on this game. This is a training camp game. This is a pre-season game where you’re trying to show your stuff and this hit right here on Pazetta is kind of what got Rafi to step right up and take this run at Greg. And once that happened, in came Bath, in came Pon, and then once the battle gets going, if you’re on the ice, a guy like Pazetta, and there’s a guy out there maybe you don’t like very much, there’s a good time to grab onto him. So he grabs on to Ridley Greg, nothing happens there. Guys are escorted to the penalty box. And finally, a little action, a little angst, little combustion here that you normally would see in a preeason game of this stature. brought around the box. Wondered if he might get called for joining that altercation, but it looks like Pazetta and Rafi had some good play down low. Watch Ridley Greg. He’s going to get this one and he doesn’t dust it off. He he just sends it right out to Calv. And I mentioned earlier, Calv’s got a really sweet one-time. He drags that thing along the ground. He’s nice. He’s really strong on it. Karan to Greg out into the slot and the coverage is just a bit off the stick of Calv and he made no mistake putting that into the back of the net with 648 to go. The lead is cut in half and it’s 4-2 Toronto now. Just 14 games for the Rangers last year, three goals. He had 14 and 13 goal seasons. And here’s Rafi. This after they hit earlier and Mchuan has challenged Marshall Rafi. Mchuan’s a heavyweight. Not sure how much the fight has been involved in the past, but handling himself okay in another battle of Ontario Desta. Well, accepting the challenge of Mchuan. Full marks right there. Doesn’t matter. And he gets involved for his team and answers the bell on the hit. Ottawa 17, Toronto 83 each. And a good bout and some good It’s a good knuckle chucking there. I could hear it hitting the helmet in the side of the face here as this one was right next to me. The conversation was made and you can see Rafi and Mchuan and there was no mistake. Once the puck, you got to wait for the puck to drop and they did. And then what you’re trying to do is try to figure out what your what your opponent is trying to do first and defense that and then come after. And that’s exactly There was a discussion in the warm-up. I I wondered about this and might be a little history from Belleville and the Marlies, but there was a conversation who last year in a preseason game scored against the Leafs and also took on Ryan Reeves with mixed results. And a shot from the point blasted wide to the net by Matten Paulo. Here comes Hes. Luke Hayes shifting gears at least changing behind him and the Danford shot is out of play and now Peron gets tied up with a leap behind the net. Well, there’s no doubt the second period’s had a little more extracurricular extracurricular activities going on for sure. Uh you can tell just by the edge of the players when they’re coming to their benches, the way they’re kind of chatting with one another. It’s uh certainly taken on a bit of an edge here in period 2. Now Vinnie Leri involved

2025 – 2026 Pre Season
Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Ottawa Senators
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