The Colorado Avalanche and Toronto Maple Leafs came in to tonight’s game each looking like two of the hottest teams across the league. Only one of them performed tonight, as a newly fresh-shaved Austin Matthews recorded a hat-trick in a 8-3 rout of the Avs.
It was not pretty, as Darcy Kuemper was forced out of the game before it even started with an upper-body injury. Jonas Johansson came in on late notice. With a terrible defense in front of him, it was rough from there on out.
1st Period
Toronto came out flying, when William Nylander stormed into the zone and blew one past Johansson to make it 1-0.