[blueandwhite]

Leafs demolish Blue Jackets 8-2, go up 2 and oh in series.

Game Summary Period 1 5:51 03-04 Maple Leafs Goal scored by Alexei Ponikarovsky assisted by Darcy Tucker and Robert Reichel 03-04 Maple Leafs 1-0 6:41 03-04 Maple Leafs Goal scored by Bryan Marchment assisted by Mikael Renberg 03-04 Maple Leafs 2-0 8:09 03-04 Maple Leafs Joe Nieuwendyk shoots and scores on the rebound assisted by Tie Domi and Aki Berg 03-04 Maple Leafs 3-0 8:23 03-04 Blue Jackets 4 minute double-minor penalty on Jody Shelley for boarding 03-04 Blue Jackets 0-3 8:43 03-04 Maple Leafs Powerplay - Goal scored by Darcy Tucker assisted by Bryan Mccabe and Tomas Kaberle 03-04 Maple Leafs 4-0 9:50 03-04 Maple Leafs 2 minute penalty on Darcy Tucker for clipping 03-04 Maple Leafs 4-0 Period 2 3:15 03-04 Maple Leafs Goal scored by Darcy Tucker assisted by Karel Pilar and Alexei Ponikarovsky
Pascal Leclaire is replaced by Marc Denis in the net. 03-04 Maple Leafs 5-0 7:14 03-04 Blue Jackets Goal scored by Rick Nash assisted by David Vyborny and Todd Marchant 03-04 Blue Jackets 1-5 18:46 03-04 Maple Leafs Goal scored by Owen Nolan assisted by Mats Sundin 03-04 Maple Leafs 6-1 Period 3 1:01 03-04 Maple Leafs Goal scored by Bryan Mccabe assisted by Darcy Tucker and Alexei Ponikarovsky 03-04 Maple Leafs 7-1 2:22 03-04 Maple Leafs 2 minute penalty on Owen Nolan for holding 03-04 Maple Leafs 7-1 8:31 03-04 Blue Jackets Goal scored by Todd Marchant assisted by Scott Lachance and Rick Nash 03-04 Blue Jackets 2-7 16:21 03-04 Maple Leafs Goal scored by Ken Klee assisted by Alexei Ponikarovsky and Robert Reichel 03-04 Maple Leafs 8-2 17:23 03-04 Blue Jackets 2 minute penalty on Darryl Sydor for slashing 03-04 Blue Jackets 2-8
Team Statistics
Toronto Columbus Goals Scored 8 2 Shots On Goal 42 38 Shooting % 19.0 5.3 Penalties 2 3 Powerplay Scoring 1/2 0/2 Shorthanded Scoring 0/2 0/2 Powerplay % 50.0 0.0 Penalty Killing % 100.0 50.0 Powerplay Minutes 3:27 3:07 Penalty Shots 0/0 0/0 Faceoffs Won 38/62 24/62 Empty Net Goals 0 0
Shots By Period
1st 2nd 3rd Total Toronto 15 17 10 42 Columbus 11 13 14 38
Player Statistics P Toronto +/- EVT PPT SHT TOI SHF S G A FW FL FW% PN PIM D Tomas Kaberle -1 19:29 1:59 1:40 23:08 58 3 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Bryan Mccabe -1 19:29 1:59 1:40 23:08 58 5 1 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Ken Klee 3 17:42 1:28 0:00 19:10 40 2 1 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Aki Berg 3 17:42 0:00 1:27 19:09 40 2 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 C Mats Sundin 0 13:37 1:59 1:40 17:16 37 3 0 1 9 4 69.2 0 0 C Joe Nieuwendyk 1 13:30 1:28 1:27 16:25 30 2 1 0 10 2 83.3 0 0 D Bryan Marchment 3 16:15 0:00 0:00 16:15 34 2 1 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Karel Pilar 3 16:15 0:00 0:00 16:15 34 2 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 RW Darcy Tucker 4 13:51 1:59 0:00 15:50 29 4 2 2 0 4 0.0 1 2 LW Gary Roberts 0 13:37 1:59 0:00 15:36 34 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 LW Alexei Ponikarovsky 4 13:51 0:00 1:27 15:18 28 2 1 3 0 0 0.0 0 0 RW Owen Nolan 0 13:16 1:28 0:00 14:44 30 2 1 0 0 0 0.0 1 2 C Robert Reichel 4 13:51 0:00 0:00 13:51 25 2 0 2 8 7 53.3 0 0 RW Tie Domi 1 13:30 0:00 0:00 13:30 24 3 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 C Matthew Stajan 1 13:30 0:00 0:00 13:30 24 2 0 0 3 0 100.0 0 0 C Nikolai Antropov 0 12:28 0:00 0:00 12:28 23 1 0 0 4 5 44.4 0 0 RW Mikael Renberg 0 12:28 0:00 0:00 12:28 23 0 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 RW Thomas Fitzgerald 0 11:56 0:00 0:00 11:56 22 2 0 0 4 2 66.7 0 0 RW Nathan Perrott 0 0:00 0:00 1:40 1:40 3 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Richard Jackman 0 0:00 1:28 0:00 1:28 6 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 RW Alexander Mogilny 0 0:00 1:28 0:00 1:28 3 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 RW Wade Belak 0 0:00 0:00 1:27 1:27 6 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 P Columbus +/- EVT PPT SHT TOI SHF S G A FW FL FW% PN PIM LW Jody Shelley -3 25:10 0:00 0:00 25:10 46 5 0 0 0 0 0.0 2 4 D Anders Eriksson 1 19:32 1:40 1:59 23:11 56 2 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Scott Lachance 1 19:32 0:00 1:28 21:00 48 2 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Jaroslav Spacek -3 17:43 1:40 1:28 20:51 48 3 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Luke Richardson -3 17:43 0:00 1:59 19:42 46 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Rostislav Klesla -3 16:11 1:27 0:00 17:38 40 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 D Darryl Sydor -3 16:11 1:27 0:00 17:38 38 5 0 0 0 0 0.0 1 2 LW Rick Nash 1 13:47 1:40 1:59 17:26 35 3 1 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 LW Geoff Sanderson -3 14:29 1:27 1:28 17:24 33 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 C Todd Marchant 1 13:47 1:27 1:59 17:13 35 4 1 1 7 8 46.7 0 0 C Andrew Cassels -3 13:57 0:00 1:28 15:25 28 2 0 0 4 4 50.0 0 0 RW David Vyborny 1 13:27 1:40 0:00 15:07 31 2 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 C Manny Malhotra -2 13:26 1:40 0:00 15:06 28 3 0 0 2 10 16.7 0 0 RW Trevor Letowski -3 13:57 0:00 0:01 13:58 26 3 0 0 3 2 60.0 0 0 RW Tyler Wright -2 13:26 0:00 0:00 13:26 24 2 0 0 1 5 16.7 0 0 RW Nikolai Zherdev -1 11:44 1:27 0:00 13:11 24 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 C Lasse Pirjeta -1 12:16 0:00 0:00 12:16 23 0 0 0 7 8 46.7 0 0 EVT=Even Strength Time On Ice, PPT=Powerplay Time On Ice, SHT=Shorthanded Time On Ice, SHF=# of Shifts, S=Shots on Goal, G=Goals Scored, A=Assists, FW=Faceoffs Won, FL=Faceoffs Lost, FW%=Faceoff Win Percentage, PN=Number of Penalties, PIM=Penalty Minutes
Toronto Goaltending Name SA GA S S% TOI PIM Ed Belfour 38 2 36 94.7 60:00 0:00
Columbus Goaltending Name SA GA S S% TOI PIM Marc Denis 23 3 20 87.0 36:45 0:00 Pascal Leclaire 19 5 14 73.7 23:15 0:00

Game Notes GOALS
Toronto: Bryan Mccabe, Ken Klee, Joe Nieuwendyk, Bryan Marchment, Darcy Tucker (2), Alexei Ponikarovsky, Owen Nolan
Columbus: Rick Nash, Todd Marchant

ASSISTS
Toronto: Tomas Kaberle, Bryan Mccabe, Aki Berg, Mats Sundin, Karel Pilar, Darcy Tucker (2), Alexei Ponikarovsky (3), Robert Reichel (2), Tie Domi, Mikael Renberg
Columbus: Scott Lachance, Rick Nash, Todd Marchant, David Vyborny

PENALTIES
Toronto: Darcy Tucker (1 for 2 mins), Owen Nolan (1 for 2 mins)
Columbus: Jody Shelley (2 for 4 mins), Darryl Sydor (1 for 2 mins) INJURIES
None.

EJECTIONS
None.

STARS OF THE GAME
1. Darcy Tucker (Toronto)
2. Alexei Ponikarovsky (Toronto)
3. Ed Belfour (Toronto)

DATE OF GAME
April 23, 2006 PM


And lookie there - who's the number one star? Apparently young Mister Tucker with 2 goals.
We finally heard from Reichel, who's been a little quiet of late ie earn your cash, buddy.
Nieuwendyk's point streak continues, and Ponikarovsky is starting something
This time around, Denis replaces Leclaire after a bullet from Tucker makes it 5 - nothing. Jackets need a miracle between the pipes if they want to get a win out of this series, let alone take it.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Good gosh...its like 17 goals to 5 in two games?...Did you look closely?...Did we actually have someone in goal for this slaughter?

So Tucker shows up?...about time...and was his second goal really neccessary?

Nash at least was trying for us...he scored he assisted...sure he stood there when Nolan took that crisp pass from Sundin and scored. Nash is not about defense.

If it was a fight, it would be stopped...this is nothing short of Foreman pounding the snot out of Frazier in Jamacia!...Down goes Columbus!...Down goes Columbus!...Down goes Columbus!

[Gotham Dark Knight]

You know, I just caught the highlights on ESPN, since they didn't broadcast the game down here...and wouldn't you know it...they showed Tucker's two goals, but they didn't show Nash's...dang it!...They might as well just admit to being an Anti-Columbus freakin show!...They were even interviewing old Leafs from '67...its not like we got old players from '67 to talk us up...you know!

[blueandwhite]

Hang in there - when you have 90 years under your belt, when numbers 61 and 13 hang from the rafters, when you've gone through almost 20 gms and 25 coaches, when you've gone 20 years without a cup - you'll be hated and adored, heckled and revered, and then they can't stop paying attention to you.
hang onto to your snot for game 3. maybe sundin will slip and fall in it.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by blueandwhite

hang onto to your snot for game 3. maybe sundin will slip and fall in it.

Seeing as you know the man (wink, wink) can you have him slip in the 2nd period?

And I see what you mean...our All-time team is currently on ice...if we had an "old-timers_ game, we would have us a double header...if ...you get the idea...Best of luck in game 3...remember its best of 9...you are bound to tire from scoring goals...