It's always an interesting occasion in the Saddledome when the Toronto Maple Leafs come to town. Calgary, as you may know, is a city of transplants; the common joke is that nobody is actually from Calgary, it's just a place that seems to collect people. The 'Dome was roughly one-third full of blue sweaters cheering on one of hockey's Original Six clubs this evening. After the first 49 seconds of this contest, those fans were awfully quiet.
The Calgary Flames uncharacteristically got out to an early lead and held on for the rest of the game against a Leafs team that played the night before.