The Maple Leafs left behind the horrors of last week, skipping town to head south a brief road trip to Nashville, then Buffalo. Martin Marincin was a last minute scratch because of that flu going around the Leafs locker room - wash you hands you idiots - and they dealt with losing another defender much better than we would have thought.
The Maple Leafs tried evening the score early, but knocking out Viktor Arvidsson with a shot off the unpadded part of the leg, and had some good back and forth with the Predators for a couple minutes before Patrick Marleau is called for hooking Wayne Simmonds.