First Period

Leafs played a fast and focused period marred by a couple of bad penalties.

Max Domi got it going with what is a right time and place sort of goal, but also a beauty:

Simon Benoit took a very silly tripping penalty that also caused Kevin Rooney to slam into the boards awkwardly on his arm – he stayed in the game though. The Leafs PK was very good – Brandon Carlo and Scott Laughton figured prominently in both PKs.

Then Nick Robertson really did a dumb:

Again the PK had that covered.

The Flames came up with a great play near the end of the period to tie the game:

After one it was one-all.

Now that's quality offence!

Second Period

This period was even more fun.

The Leafs got an early power play on Nazem Kadri penalty, and William Nylander illustrated that the Leafs power play is often very good:

Robertson then took a penalty with a lazy high stick, the sort of thing some coaches really get annoyed by.

Morgan Frost scored, but the Leafs challenged for offside. It was ruled no-goal, likely on some video we didn't see on air, which looked very inconclusive.

And then, like it's a move, the redemption scene:

Great pass out from Domi.

And in the sequel to this blockbuster film, Auston Matthews, playing through the pain (of the "something" that's wrong).

This was for a too many men penalty, and the next one was a ref call pulling one guy out of a post-whistle scrum after he'd threatened to do that a couple of times.

Sometimes other teams take stupid penalties too.

After two it was 5-1 Leafs.

Third Period

Dan Vladar started the third in place of Dustin Wolf.

On a delayed penalty, Bobby McMann put this game to bed with a goal:

Calgary plays on Tuesday, so they were just trying to survive the rest of the third, while the Leafs kept skating fast.

Simon Benoit got angry over a clip to the face, and cross-checked a Flames player. A scrum ensued, and Benoit took four to the Flames two minutes.

Joe Woll was the best penalty killer on that one.

The Flames heavily outshot the Leafs in the third, but it sure seemed like the Leafs had the puck a lot. Not like they needed more goals.

The Flames popped one in very late in the third, almost by accident.

Final score was 6-2 Leafs.

Considering all the power play time, the Leafs fourth line, at over nine minutes at five-on-five, ate up a lot of minutes and gave the top two lines some shifts off.

Next game is Wednesday at home to Colorado. The Leafs play away vs the Rangers on Thursday.

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