Autumn in Toronto - Leafs fall as Senators soar
Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Posted by Kerrzy

Saturday night saw an exclamation point driven into the Ottawa Senators’ claim to the throne in the battle of Ontario as the Maple Leafs were embarrassed 8-0 at the Air Canada Center in Toronto.

Ottawa’s last three games has seen Dany Heatley and Jason Spezza combine for twelve points on the Sens last fourteen goals, Heatley netting four of those goals in tonight’s effort with Spezza assisting on two of them.



On an Ottawa Senators’ power play with 4:19 to go in the second period, Spezza circled with the puck in the Maple Leafs’ zone towards the left-side boards, beating a few players before setting up Dany Heatley for a one-timer hat-trick goal that beat Eddie Belfour and signaled the end of his night.

Heatley’s eighth goal of the season came in the third period on an incredible one-man effort where the Calgary, Alberta-product skated the puck in from the neutral zone, out-hustling the Toronto defense and out-maneuvering Maple Leaf backup goalie Mikael Tellqvist, who made 15 saves on the night, to put home the 5-0 goal.

Toronto-native Chris Kelly put the icing on the already heavily-iced cake with his first ever NHL goal on a beautiful redirection of an Aton Volchenkov shot midway through the third, in a game that saw Ottawa’s Dominik Hasek earn the 65th shutout of his career.

The win gives Ottawa an 8-1-0 record, and sole possession of second place in the Eastern Conference while the second Toronto loss in three nights drops Toronto to 5-4-2 on the season.

Moral of the Story: The day of the goal-scorer is back!!