The Tampa Bay Lightning kicked off their defense of the Stanley Cup with a resounding and disheartening loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs in Scotiabank Arena on Monday night. Auston Matthews led the way with two goals and an assist as the home team dominated play in pretty much every aspect of the game. Mitch Marner, David Kampf and Jake Muzzin scored for Toronto while Jack Campbell stopped all 23 shots he faced. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 29 of 34 in the loss.
Both team had ample power play opportunities as the referees called a tight game.