Captain Gabriel Landeskog scored twice as the visiting Colorado Avalanche beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday night, deepening the slump of Canada’s most-followed team.
Toronto had taken a 1-0 lead before Colorado took over, with five different Avalanche players scoring. The visitors scored the final three goals to put the game away, and the Leafs were thoroughly outplayed, with their struggles in goal continuing.
Leafs’ bright spots not enough
Toronto’s Easton Cowan, Jack Roslovic and Darren Raddysh each had two points on the night, but it was not enough against a Colorado side that kept coming in waves.
Colorado improved to 11-6-2; Toronto fell to 8-10-2, having now lost three straight home games — 0-4 to New Jersey on 8 November, 2-4 to Montreal on 7 November, and now 3-6 to Colorado.
What comes next
Toronto hosts the Minnesota Wild on Thursday 12 November, with the Leafs needing a response in front of their own fans. The questions around the team will only grow louder if the home losing run stretches to four.
More Canadian hockey from this week: the Oilers beat the Rangers 3-1 on Sunday, and the Grizzlies beat the Raptors 118-102 in Toronto.
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