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Consistency remains elusive as Toronto Marlies fall below .500 with 6-2 loss to Laval

His team followed up an encouraging 8-2 win over Belleville with a performance that fell well short of expectations in Laval on Tuesday evening.

First Period

Penalty killing and goaltending remain areas of huge concern, and the latter was certainly at the forefront when Laval opened the scoring inside the opening minute.

Alexandre Grenier made a heads-up play behind the Toronto net, but Jeff Glass was out of it and failed to react quickly enough to stop Lukas Vejdemo from nestling the puck into the twine.

A tying goal for Toronto arrived inside the three-minute mark.