The Marlies certainly paid back the favour, shutting out the Rocket in their brand new building with an excellent 60-minute effort that bodes well for this long stint away from Ricoh Coliseum.
First Period
Laval began strongly by pinning Toronto inside their own zone for the majority of the opening three minutes, but they never really threatened the Marlie net.
Toronto opened the scoring just before the four-minute mark with one of the stranger goals of the season so far. After Nikita Soshnikov tipped in a stretch pass from Vincent LoVerde, the puck took a huge bounce off of the backboards and Colin Greening read it faster than any Laval player to slide the puck home low past Charlie Lindgren.