They didn’t score on their first shot, as they had in four straight games.

In fact, the Maple Leafs didn’t score until their 16th shot, with under 10 minutes left in regulation time, and short-handed to boot. Scott Laughton , sent on his merry breakaway way by Nicholas Roy, beat Jakob Dobes glove side on a slapshot from 23 feet.

They finally penetrated the ramparts of the Montreal Canadiens.

“A little fired up there,’’ Laughton would say with a smile later.

That was a moment for desperados, though, drawing level 1-1. Before an overtime that settled nothing. Before Toronto’s first shootout of the season. Where only Auston Matthews was able to beat Dobes, five-hole, while William Nylander and John Tavares got turned away. While Cole Caulfield and Alexandre Texier got the better

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