This game was so much fun.
After yet another slow start, the Toronto Maple Leafs got themselves into overdrive and used a maniacal second period fuelled by offense to carry them to a 5-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Trade Deadline Boxing Day.
Frederik Andersen was astronomical in this game, stopping 31 of 34 shots for his 100th win as a Maple Leafs. I guess it’s easy to do that when your teams have more than 30 wins in a season, eh.
The team was shaky at first, but then John Tavares and Auston Matthews breathed life into the lineup and inspired Frederik Gauthier — who only played seven minutes total in this game — to score his first multi-point game in the NHL with a goal and an assist on the game-winning goal by Tyler Ennis, who also scored.