Maple Leafs lose again, fall to Los Angeles Kings to drop to .500 via sunhornby
They still trailed by only a goal entering the third period and managed to kill a Mark Giordano minor, but last man back Rasmus Sandin was knocked off a puck by Kevin Fiala who broke in to clinch it.
This hockey game looked more video game at times with Toronto in its black alternate jerseys, designed by friend of the team Justin Bieber, while the Kings had switched to their silver chrome helmets to augment white sweaters. Ilya Samsonov, given extra time to shake off a cold or flu, had to clean up a couple of mates’ mistakes.
The Leafs botched two easy clearing attempts on that minor, then Pierre Engvall turned it over in the neutral zone with all Leaf penalty killers moving up ice. Philip Danault, an old Leaf adversary from Montreal, relayed to Viktor Arvidsson for the go-ahead marker.Article content