The Toronto Marlies rallied from a two-goal deficit to take Game 1 of the Calder Cup Finals series, beating the Texas Stars 6-5 on Saturday afternoon.
Six different goal scorers found the net for the Marlies, including Trevor Moore who notched the game-winner at 10:03 of the third period.
Toronto, the Eastern Conference champions, looked rusty following a seven-day break between games, having swept Lehigh Valley in the previous series. The sluggishness was evident in the first period during which the Marlies surrendered a pair of power play goals to Texas’s Travis Morin and Curtis McKenzie. In between the Stars’ tallies, Justin Holl scored a strange goal with a shot from the corner that deflected off Texas goalie Mike McKenna into the net.