Well, that was surprising. Toronto was THIIIS close to clinching the Shield this week and being able to rest some star players heading into the playoffs, then they got jumped 5-3 at home by Montreal and, minus Giovinco and Altidore, lost at New England 2-1. However, due to how far ahead of the field they were heading into this week, they remain on top of the rankings. Meanwhile, Santo Valeri took the lead in the MLS Golden Boot race with a brace to extend his record-setting scoring streak to 9 games.
Bookkeeping note: Every couple weeks I double check my data against the MLS table, and I discovered a couple minor errors that impacted teams scores, those have now been corrected but have changed a couple rankings, and a couple scores so changes to score may not completely reflect actual difference from last week to this week.