The New Jersey Devils offered the Maple Leafs a reminder of what it’s like to be a young team with speed and skill, coached by Sheldon Keefe.

The Leafs are none of that any more. This Craig Berube team is big, old and not nearly as fast as it once was. And they paid the price Tuesday night in a game that might have given hockey fans another reason to watch the Blue Jays. Because watching the Leafs can be painful.

Jack Hughes had a hat trick, pacing the Devils to a 5-2 win at Scotiabank Arena. John Tavares and Matias Maccelli (with his first as a Leaf) scored for Toronto.

The Leafs spent most of the game with just five defencemen after Chris Tanev took a Dawson Mercer helmet to the head while killing a penalty. Berube said Tanev could miss time with what the team labelled an

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