The Vancouver Canucks were in Toronto for their 44rd game of the season after dropping three of four against the cellar-dwelling Ottawa Senators. With their playoff chances getting smaller by the day, the Canucks needed to replicate their performance from the last time they played Toronto, a two-game series they swept.
They couldn’t replicated that success however, as the Leafs dominated from start to finish in a 4-1 victory. The goal-scoring started after a few Quinn Hughes’ errors quickly compounded and ended with a Braden Holtby mistake that Mitch Marner exploited.
Kole Lind, the 2017 2nd round draft pick, made his NHL debut after working his way up through the organization.