It is a lesson that has stayed with Andreas Borgman every game these last few years.



The coach was named Martin Filander, who at the time was the bench boss of Vasteras in Sweden’s second division, the Allsvenskan. And his orders — with no exceptions — were that no player could dump the puck out of the zone.



Borgman smiles remembering the edict.



“He actually said we couldn’t rim the puck (around the boards) or nothing like that,” he recalled. “So we had to play it. We had to try to figure it out.



“He had a good influence on me. We still keep in touch sometimes. He’s still watching me.”



Watching how he exits the zone, no doubt.



At the time, Borgman had just turned 20 years old. He had been passed over in the NHL draft several times and bounced around several teams and leagues in Sweden. The fact he is now playing a regular shift in the NHL, with the Maple Leafs, stuns some...