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Toronto Maple Leafs: 58 Minutes of Perfect Hockey

For the Toronto Maple Leafs it was nearly a perfect game.

Despite missing star defenseman Jake Gardiner, and fully half of their top-four defensemen with Travis Dermott also out, the Leafs played a dominant game, and almost left Edmonton with a 3-0 shut-out.

Unfortunately, the Oilers scored a couple of meaningless goals with their net empty, but otherwise it was nearly a perfect night.

Leafs are Rolling

Morgan Rielly scored on his birthday, and it was his 18th, and league-leading (for a defenseman) goal.

More impressively, is that Rielly leads the NHL in 5v5 goals and points for a defenseman (stats naturalstattrick.