RALEIGH, N.C. — Fighting a lingering head cold, Toronto coach Pat Quinn watched in street clothes as his team practiced Saturday. He's not so sure he liked what he saw heading into Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.

        “I watched them practice and it's pretty light, it's pretty cocky,” said Quinn, whose Maple Leafs lead Carolina 1-0 in the best-of-seven series. “I was sitting there saying, "Oh gee, we don't need that.”

        Quinn was asked if his team might be confident, not cocky.

        “There is a lovely difference there. I can't really articulate what it is,” Quinn said. “I know it when I see it.”

        Some of the Maple Leafs said their coach may have been misreading the team, which took a day off Friday for the first time in the postseason.

        “I don't think we're in any position to get ahead of ourselves,” center Travis Green said. “We've only won one game. We're going to be focused. We were in good spirits because we had a lot of guys practicing, which we haven't had in a long time.”

        Injured players such as captain Mats Sundin, Tie Domi and Darcy Tucker skated with the regulars Saturday, and Quinn said a few starters may be back for Game 2. However, Quinn said Sundin has yet to be cleared to play after breaking a wrist in Game 1 of the team's opening playoff series against the New York Islanders.

        Right wing Garry Valk and Jyrki Lumme are the most likely to return, while defenseman Paul Healey, who skated just two shifts after blocking a shot Thursday night, was also on the ice practicing.

        Quinn had blood work done Friday for the lingering cold. He said Saturday all the tests were OK and he would be behind the bench Sunday.

        “I was getting mad because I couldn't get to sleep,” Quinn said when asked why he finally went to the doctor after feeling weak for more than a month. “I was up at 4:30 in the morning, 5:30 in the morning, I would go for a walk outside. I just said, "I've got to find out what the heck's going on here.' I was feeling paranoid about not being able to breathe.”

        While Quinn is eager to get more starters back, he's also worried about losing some team chemistry. Many of the team's role players and some minor leaguers helped the Maple Leafs knock off the Islanders and Ottawa Senators in two tough seven-game series.

        “You want your team to believe they can overcome things,” Quinn said. “That's hard to manufacture. It's like trying to sell something. You can sell it and sell it and sell it, but until guys participate in it and feel it on their own, that's when it happens.

        “Whether that can continue, that's the real test we're in now.”

        The only thing Carolina would change from Game 1 was its power play, which scored on its first opportunity, but was 0-for-7 the rest of the way.

        Ron Francis led the NHL during the regular season in power-play points, but Toronto's penalty killers tried to cut off the Carolina captain behind the net and forced him along the boards, where the Hurricanes wasted too much time with the man-advantage.

        Still, after watching some video of the unsuccessful power plays, Carolina said it didn't plan many changes to its system.

        “If they are going to take that many penalties we have to make them pay,” Jeff O'Neill said. “When a guy has 6,000 assists, you want to take the puck out of his hands. But we want the puck in Ronnie's hands because he makes the plays. We just have to battle to get him the puck and get open for him.”

        Toronto, on the other hand, will focus on staying out of the box.

        “We can't kill off eight or nine penalties every night. It ain't going to happen,” Toronto defenseman Bryan McCabe said.

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