Don’t let the final score fool you – this game was closely contested for a while.
A five-goal victory qualifies as a thorough beating, but for the first two periods, the Leafs were competitive and had the first lead of the evening just 2:02 into the game. The Jets broke it open with two goals in the first three minutes of the third, but the Buds nearly cut that lead in half only to have a goal by Nick Spaling disallowed on a controversial video replay call. Winnipeg piled on the offense after that, but this wasn’t as one-sided a showdown as the result might suggest.