The Maple Leafs found themselves in a 2-0 hole just as they did the day before in Ottawa. This time, the first blood was drawn just a few shifts into the game when the Leafs won a defensive-zone faceoff and Topi Niemela didn’t get enough air under his flip toward the neutral zone. It was easily intercepted and turned into a bang-bang passing play that gave Joseph Woll no chance. Five minutes later, a seeing-eye point shot beat an unsighted Woll with the Leafs’ top line on the ice after a missed clearance opportunity.
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