A third-period lead to a multi-goal deficit in two minutes and 30 seconds. Normally there’s no coming back from that, which proved again to be correct Thursday night in Calgary for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Undone by a sleepy restart out of the intermission and a rare blip on Frederik Andersen’s recent track record, the Maple Leafs surrendered a great chance to improve to 3-0 on their current west coast road trip with a collapse in the final frame, losing 4-2 to the Calgary Flames.
The Maple Leafs will head north to Edmonton to meet the suddenly struggling Oilers on Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday to close out the roadie.