Jake McCabe avoided fracture during loss to Canadiens, defends Simon Benoit’s start to season
Jake McCabe avoided fracture during loss to Canadiens, defends Simon Benoit’s start to season
“Honestly, not really that scary. That happens quite a bit, honestly,” McCabe said about getting hit in the face. “Puck ramps up your stick. This one, my face just blew up right away. They just wanted to make sure there’s no fracture, which there’s not. Got lucky, I guess, on that one.”
McCabe and the Maple Leafs are channeling some positivity, while falling to last place in the Eastern Conference with a 9-10-3 record.
“Our road record hasn’t been great either. We know historically, or since I’ve been here, we’ve been pretty solid on the road. We would like to get back to that this trip and that’s kind of why I’m saying that’s a good time for it. Around the guys all the time. You start winning some games, you start feeling good.”
McCabe joked that he wished his face looked a lot prettier, but said that his kids are getting used to the battered and bruised look he has going on now after years of stitches.
“ I think he’s playing real solid all year. A couple of games, I feel like that St. Louis game at home, I thought we were both skating real well. Having two left shots allows us to kind of skate forward a little bit more. Getting in technical terms of like surfing across the ice and replacing each other or whatever it be to continue to have good gaps. We’re both better when we’re skating, when we’re physical, and the rest of our game kind of takes over after that part is initiated.”
