The best you could say about last night’s game is that the Toronto Maple Leafs won.
It wasn’t their best game, but the Toronto Maple Leafs scored the first three goals of the game and were able to hang on for a win.
In hockey, “score effects” are what we call the advantage that a trailing team has statistically. This is because, generally at least, when a hockey team in the NHL has a 2 or more goal lead, they tend to play extremely passive in order to hold on to the lead.
This is probably a loser, as far as strategies go, but in the NHL, innovation is about as likely as The National teaming up with Bustah Rhymes.