Tyler Johnson and Cedric Paquette had two goals each as the NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning thumped the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2 on Monday night.
Anthony Cirelli and Ondrej Palat also scored for Tampa Bay , while Ryan McDonagh, Yanni Gourde and Jan Rutta chipped in with two assists apiece. Nikita Kucherov helped set up the game's first goal for his league-best 111th point of the season.Auston Matthews and Connor Brown replied for Toronto . Frederik Andersen, who didn't get much help from his teammates, allowed four goals on 19 shots before getting the hook less than five minutes into the second period.
Minus winger Kasperi Kapanen because of illness, as well as injured defencemen Jake Gardiner and Travis Dermott , the Leafs were playing the first game back at Scotiabank Arena after grabbing five of six points on their annual trip through Western Canada. Toronto, which was 6-1-1 over its last eight following a 0-2-1 skid, fell behind by three at 4:20 of the second when the rebound of McDonagh's shot fell to Brayden Point, who kicked the puck into the path of Johnson for a tap-in.
But any thought of a comeback was put to rest with 1:44 left in period on a sequence that summed up the Leafs' night. The teams split their first two meetings in Florida -- Vasilevskiy made 48 saves in Tampa's 4-1 victory on Dec. 13 before Andersen stopped 36 shots in Toronto's 4-2 triumph on Jan. 17.
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