Toronto 1, Seattle 0 After 20
1st Period
For whatever reason, the Maple Leafs have declared Brandon Tanev public enemy #1.
- Conor Timmons cross-checks Brandon Tanev. Though Tanev slides dangerously skates-first into the end boards, he's able to angrily rise and confront every Leaf on the ice.The Kraken, 0-for-5 on the power play Thursday in Edmonton, don' score here, either.
- Not long after, Tanev fires a wrist shot into Toronto goalie Ilya Samsonov. Not satisfied with that outcome, Simon Benoit rides Tanev heavily into those same end boards.
- Sunday night's apparently all right for fighting, too. Tanev lays a clean, hard hit on Timothy Liljegren. Jake McCabe objects, so they fight.
Perhaps the Kraken can call on this guy for help.
This sport isn't sufficiently difficult for Auston Matthews. Taking a Mitch Marner feed from behind the net, Matthews puts the puck through his own legs, onto his backhand, and past Joey Daccord for a 1-0 Leafs lead at 7:06.
As we wrote earlier today, it's a bad idea to let Matthews shoot. So far in 44 games, 38 of those shots have become goals.