Hope you all had a lovely holidays, because it’s time to get back to some puck, as the Leafs take on the… Arizona Coyotes. Oh boy, this is gonna be a boring one isn’t it?

Spoiler alert: it was.

The Leafs came flying out of the gate, dominating the first half of the period. The first of the Leafs goals came about nine minutes in, as Zach Hyman got a breakaway shorthanded, and fired it by Scott Wedgewood to give the Leafs a 1-0 lead, with just the Leafs second shorthanded goal of the season.

How about that celly?

Two minutes later, Matthews and Nylander had a nice little give and go, and Matthews did his typical drag and shoot to wire it for his first goal in his hometown.

The goals continued 27 seconds later, as Mitch Marner contributed in on the fun with a goal of his own, giving the Buds a 3-0 lead.

After that, the team went to sleep, and didn’t get a shot for the rest of the period. Oh, and the Coyotes scored a couple times, but that’s irrelevant. They almost tied it at 3-3, but Freddy bailed out the team with an incredible save.

The Leafs continued to not play well to start the 2nd period, but Arizona didn’t capitalize on any of their chances. Then the Leafs returned to their scoring ways later in the period, starting with Marleau tipping in a Marner pass on the power play to make it a 4-2 game.

Six minutes later, Nylander snagged the puck from Oliver Ekman-Larsson, and made a slick move on the breakaway to build on the lead, and give the Buds a 5-2 lead.

And 10 seconds later, Marner made another nice play to Patrick Marleau, who showed a bit of hands, and deked around Wedgewood for his second goal of the game.

The Yotes scored again later in the period to make it 6-3, but not much else for the remainder of the period.

You remember the third period? Me neither. The game was pretty much over, so neither team was really trying. Arizona scored again to make it 6-4, but that would be the only eventful moment of the period.

Sike, Connor Brown got an empty netter.

The Power Couple of 2018

Matt Martin seemed to be in no rush on the 3-2 goal for Arizona

And some clever political humour from our boy Kappy

Hope you didn’t get too comfy during the break, cuz the Leafs got even more hockey for you tomorrow, as they head out to Colorado to take on the Avs, before finishing off the year in Vegas.