The Toronto Marlies opened their season in Winnipeg (they drove there) with four games that they split against the Manitoba Moose. The team played four games in five nights and both teams basically ran the same lineups and goalies for all four games. The Marlies won the first two, lost the second two, and lost Rasmus Sandin after just two periods to what sounds like a difficult foot injury.
The Marlies started local boy Andrew D’Agostini for all four games, he sported a .902 save percentage in the series. His counterpart, Mikhail Berdin had a better .922 despite the Marlies winning the goal battle 12-10 because of the massive difference in shots by each team (153-103).