Calgary Flames thrash Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0

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Calgary Flames easily beat Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0. Three goals in the first period sealed the Maple Leaf’s fate for the night. Here is the game summary.

ON THE SCORESHEET

–    The Maple Leafs allowed three first period goals for the second time this season (previous: Oct. 25 vs. TBL).
–    The Maple Leafs surrendered a goal 19 seconds into the game, the earliest an opposing team has scored against the Leafs this season (previous: 1:01 by Travis Hamonic on Oct. 30 at NYI).
SHOTS FIRED
–    The Maple Leafs outshot the Flames by a 39-29 margin.
–    Toronto out-attempted Calgary 69-45.
–    Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews led the Maple Leafs in shots (5).
–    Five Maple Leafs (Carrick, Marner, Matthews, Nylander, Polak) registered 6 shot attempts.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
–    The Maple Leafs are 2-6-4 on the road.
–    Toronto’s all-time record is 57-58-12-4 in 131 games against the Flames and 23-40-5-2 in 70 games played in Calgary.
–    The Maple Leafs are 0-4-1 in the second leg of back-to-backs this season.
–    Toronto concludes its three game road trip in Vancouver on Saturday, Dec. 3.
OF NOTE…
–    Five Maple Leafs (Gardiner, Kadri, Komarov, Matthews, Nylander) played 2:08 on the power play tonight.
–    Tyler Bozak won a team-high 60 percent of his faceoffs (9 won, 6 lost).
–    Jhonas Enroth made 26 saves in the loss.
–    Jake Gardiner led the Maple Leafs in TOI (22:24).
–    Matt Hunwick and Roman Polak had a team-high in shorthanded TOI (2:45).
–    Matt Martin led the Maple Leafs in hits (4).
–    Auston Matthews and Matt Hunwick each registered 2 takeaways.
–    Morgan Rielly led Toronto in shifts (30).

UPCOMING GAMES:
–    Saturday, Dec. 3 at Vancouver Canucks, 7:00 p.m. (Hockey Night in Canada, TSN 1050)
–    Wednesday, Dec. 7 vs. Minnesota Wild, 7:30 p.m. (Sportsnet, FAN 590)
–    Saturday, Dec. 10 at Boston Bruins, 7:00 p.m. (Hockey Night in Canada, TSN 1050)
–    Sunday, Dec. 11 vs. Colorado Avalanche, 7:00 p.m. (Sportsnet, FAN 590)
–    Tuesday, Dec. 13 vs. San Jose Sharks, 7:30 p.m. (TSN 4, TSN 1050)

POSTGAME QUOTES

MIKE BABCOCK POSTGAME: NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On the slow start:
Well obviously it’s disappointing. I thought we were playing well, we came in here and obviously weren’t ready. As a team, as a coaching staff, as a goaltender we weren’t ready and end up giving up your full day of preparation in the first five minutes or whatever it is. There’s no excuse for that. It also shows you we’re not an upper echelon team when you can’t do it night-in and night-out, night-in and night-out. So, our preparation as a coaching staff and our preparation as players in the room isn’t good enough. It’s not at a high enough level to be an elite team. We’ve got some work to do, I don’t think that surprises anybody. But, our start here tonight was unLeaflike, it’s not worthy and we’ve got to do a better job than that.

On how you coach a team to avoid similar letdowns:
We’re going to continue to talk about it and get better. Two things we talk specifically about cost us the first two goals so obviously the message sent wasn’t received or it wasn’t sent well enough. That’s part on me and that’s part on them.

JHONAS ENROTH POSTGAME: NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On the start to the game:
It was a tough start, two a little bit unlucky goals. I felt ready but they beat me on their two first shots. That’s a tough start.

On the two early goals:
The first goal I didn’t get to my position and that’s on me. Maybe I was a little bit slow on the pass out. On the second goal it was just a bang-bang play. Not much to do there I think.

On if he was happy with his performance after the tough start:
You’re never happy when you lose, but I guess I think we bounced back pretty well. We didn’t give up too much in the last two periods.


JAKE GARDINER POSTGAME: NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On the early goals against:
Having a back-to-back, especially having won the first one, we were feeling pretty good about ourselves. I don’t know what it was. We obviously weren’t ready to play tonight and it obviously cost us early.

On the team’s search for a win in the second half of a back-to-back:
Winning that first one and having such a young team, I don’t think we were tired or anything. It was more of a mental lapse at the start of the game that killed us.

On back-to-backs as a mental challenge:
For sure. Being in back-to-backs shouldn’t be a problem for our group and it was just something about tonight, we weren’t ready to play.

On the push to get back into the game in the second and third:
[Chad Johnson] was really good for them tonight. Jhonas [Enroth] was great in the second two periods and held us in the game. We tried to compete and score and it just didn’t go our way.

AUSTON MATTHEWS POSTGAME: NOVEMBER 30, 2016

On the start to the game:
It’s a really tough start. We were back on our heels and weren’t ready from the jump and they were. They took advantage of that and got a couple of quick ones to put us back on our heels. That’s a tough hole to get yourself out of.

On the play of Chad Johnson for Calgary:
Their goalie has been hot lately and made a lot of really good saves and stood on his head. I thought the second and third period we definitely played much better in terms of creating opportunities and taking control of the play more. We’ve got to do that for a full 60 minutes. It’s pretty unacceptable that first 10 minutes, for sure. We’ve got to clean that up.

On reasons for the slow start:
I just think we weren’t ready to play; our focus wasn’t there. When you’re playing back-to-back, obviously you’re going to be tired but you’ve got to push through that and be smarter out there. We weren’t smart, we didn’t compete – a lot of 50/50 battles we didn’t win – so that’s something we’ve got to learn from and get better at.

 

          

 

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