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    Anaheim Ducks top Maple Leafs in Randy Carlyle’s Toronto return

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    Post by jedi17 Tue 20 Dec 2016, 8:54 pm

    Anaheim Ducks top Maple Leafs in Randy Carlyle’s Toronto return

    Another night of close to 40 shots could not avert a close loss — this time a 3-2 defeat to the Anaheim Ducks on Monday at the Air Canada Centre.
    Missing two regular centres against one of the biggest over-bearing teams in the NHL, the Leafs once more put buckets of pucks on net, but couldn’t build leads and ran into penalty trouble and the league’s second-ranked power play.
    The absence of injured Tyler Bozak and Ben Smith meant 10 rookies in the lineup and the related issues of maintaining poise with the puck on breakouts and not losing a bolt in the heat of battle.
    Zach Hyman’s night personified both the game and the way the season has gone for Mike Babcock’s young charges. He was hard on the puck, helping to create two breakaways, but missed both and was nailed for a fateful third-period roughing call.
    “Not the right time to do that,” said Hyman, who watched from the box as Cam Fowler fired the winner with less than seven minutes to play, right after Nazem Kadri tied it for Toronto. “It’s a tough one when someone hits you in the head, your first reaction is to get back at them. I have to be smarter. That’s not something that’s part of my game.”
    The past three games have seen two third-period double minors, partly due to bad luck and on Monday, calls on Nikita Zaitsev and Hyman for retaliating in the last 23 minutes of play, Zaitsev’s also leading to a power-play goal.
    “Bottom line, you have to have better discipline,” head coach Mike Babcock said. “The last two games, guys sat on the bench because we took too many penalties. Anyway you look at it, we have to have more discipline and that comes with your structure, the referee, your system.”
    The Bay Street run that the Leafs hoped would see them bank some points before Christmas ended 1-2-2, preceded by another loss to Minnesota. Every defeat was by a goal, including two in shootouts, while one was by an empty-net goal. Through it all the Leafs have been getting between 30 and 50-plus shots, keeping them second in the league on average.
    “Close isn’t good enough, you want wins,” Hyman said.
    At least the goal of the night was by a Leaf, Auston Matthews flattening his blade and extending a one-handed reach to somehow re-direct a wide Zaitsev shot back through Anaheim goalie John Gibson.
    “Something I saw on the ice,” said a modest Matthews, whose 15th of the year and ninth in the past 12 games kept him three behind Patrik Laine of the Jets for the league rookie lead. “Top of the toe of the stick and I was able to sneak it in there.”
    Incredibly, the Leafs have lost eight of the 11 games in which No. 1 overall pick Matthews has scored.
    Matthews had a changing set of wingers as the Leafs scrambled to replace Tyler Bozak, with William Nylander, who is Matthews’ regular right winger with Hyman on the other side. Matthews went up against warhorse Ryan Getzlaf much of the night.
    “I thought he was great, our best player, I thought he was fantastic,” Babcock said, but added, “it was a handful for some of our players tonight.”
    He meant Toronto won just 33% of faceoffs, Frederick Gauthier and Nylander stepping in for Bozak (lower-body) and Ben Smith (upper-body).
    Now, it’s six of the next seven on the road.
    The NHL’s roster freeze kicked in at midnight Monday, running through midnight Dec. 27. It covers the two Leafs road games, Thursday and Friday in Denver and Glendale, with the team returning for practice in Toronto Dec. 27 before two stops in Florida.
    The Leafs killed three penalties in the opening period and generated the first of two Hyman breaks. On another, Connor Brown dug it out and set up Leo Komarov, who was in too tight to try and hammer it past Gibson.
    The Leafs had 10 rookies in the lineup, the eight whom Babcock has mostly stuck with through 30 games, plus the re-activated Josh Leivo and Marlies callup Gauthier. The revolving door didn’t spin long enough for defenceman Frank Corrado. For the 30th time in 31 games, he was a healthy scratch, though a flu-ridden Jake Gardiner was questionable to start in the morning.
    Frederik Andersen was playing his old team for which he compiled a record of 77-26-12. But it was Anaheim’s trust in Gibson that led to them trade Andersen in the summer for two high draft picks.
    “I talked to Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry about him,” said coach Babcock of the two Team Canada regulars who gave intel on Andersen before the Leafs signed him to the big contract.
    “They liked him. (Anaheim GM) Bob Murray has got a lot of young talent there and he had to make some business decisions. He’s big so there is less net to shoot at and we feel comfortable in front of him.”
    Gibson played better on Monday than his .906 save percentage coming in and while his record is still below .500, it should be noted that ex-Leaf Jonathan Bernier has a record of 6-2-1 with a .901 save percentage.

    Andersen stared down a 2-on-1 with Getzlaf and Perry, before Getzlaf finally broke through with less than two minutes remaining in the middle period with Zaitsev in the box. In the third, defenceman Connor Carrick was a bit too careless coming out of his end and lost the puck. Orangeville’s Nick Ritchie moved the Ducks ahead, until Kadri’s first in nine games tied it 2-2.
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