Pension Plan Puppets · Mar 10, 2017
Recap: Leafs 4, Flyers 2
John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY SportsRecap
First period: not a great start
The Flyers dominated the first five minutes of the game being strong around the perimeter in the offensive zone and moving the puck quickly up ice on the breakout. The Leafs just couldn’t establish any kind of forecheck. Then, Mitch Marner took a careless tripping penalty 200 feet from his own goal, and the Flyers scored on the power player at 13:51 – Wayne Simmons tipped a Shayne Gostisbehere point shot up over Frederik Andersen.
The Leafs continued to look somewhat lost, struggling to generate many shots, let alone much sustained zone time until Radko Gudas took a dumb tripping penalty in the neutral zone at 7:29.