TORONTO — The pregame warmup cost them one forward, Max Jones, and a mere 11 seconds into the game, the Ducks lost another forward when Adam Henrique took a puck in the face and had to leave for repairs, but he would return for the start of the second period.

Naturally, there was more to come in Toronto’s 7-0 win against the Ducks on Tuesday night at Scotiabank Arena. Of course, there had to be with this being a messy game on a messy trip in a messed-up season. The Ducks are 1-7-2 in their last 10 games and have been outscored 10-0 in the first two games of this trip.

With the Ducks trailing 2-0, starting goaltender John Gibson left the game at 10:48 and rookie Lukas Dostal entered the game in relief. It appeared as though Gibson had been in discomfort after making a save earlier in the game but had stayed in until midway through the second.

The Leafs promptly converted on their first shot on Dostal – defenseman TJ Brodie scored his first goal since last season (Feb. 19, 2022 vs. St. Louis) and the floodgates opened.

Dostal allowed five goals on 14 shots, including three in the third period.

Maple Leafs forward Alexander Kerfoot scored twice – matching his season output, defenseman Connor Timmins added three assists and Mitch Marner extended his team-record point streak to 23 games. Marner assisted on Kerfoot’s first goal, just 1:58 into the game, and added another assist in the second period on Michael Bunting’s goal, which made it 4-0 at 16:33 of the second period.

Toronto goaltender Ilya Samsonov, who was coming off a 5-0 shutout against the Kings on Thursday, recorded his second shutout of the season and eighth of his career. He faced 29 shots.

More to come on this story.

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