Another win for the blue and white guys.



This one ended a three-game losing streak, which is good. It came against a decent San Jose Sharks team with a slightly better record, which is also good.



Less good?



Leo Komarov played a career high 24:22, which is kind of… cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. We thought the 21 he had in Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago was nutty, but we were wrong.



Twenty-four minutes and 22 seconds is the 55th highest minute total for any forward in any game in the NHL this season. It’s tops for any Leafs forward this season, surpassing Zach Hyman’s 22:08 game back in October by more than two minutes.



I know the Leafs were shorthanded a lot — 9:50, or 15 per cent of the game’s 65 minutes — but wow.



“I don’t know if we want that to be the case all the time,” Auston Matthews said afterward.



He was talking about the Leafs’ over-reliance on the penalty...