Atlanta Thrashers wins 3-2 against the Toronto Maple Leafs in overtime
Another one of exciting games of Sunday was hosted by the Atlanta Thrashers at the Philips Arena as they were against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Both teams are within four points of the final play-off position and win would boost their chances finishing in a strong position.
However, it was the Maple Leafs who took the early lead scoring twice in the first period. The second period didn’t see any goals.
The final period saw the Thrashers scoring twice to level the scores and the game went overtime where the Thrashers scored to win the game 3-2 in the end.
Ron Hainsey was named the player of the game for scoring a goal and doing good work in defence.
The Maple Leafs was in top form and they showed this with the early domination that saw them keeping possession for quite some time. There were some excellent pieces of play constructed by the Maple Leafs.
They away side did the important thing, which was to score. They scored in the 7th minute through Nikolai Kulemin through a brilliant backhand shot to get into the lead. The Maple Leafs continued with the dominance and chances kept on coming their
way.
It didn’t too long as they doubled the lead with another goal in the 9th minute. The goal was scored by Phil Kessel from a well placed flick shot. The Maple Leafs gave the Thrashers some breathing space after this which resulted in the Thrashers
coming up with a quite a few goal attempts.
However, no further goals were scored as the period ended with the Maple Leafs leading 2-0. During the period, the Maple Leafs made 12 goal attempts while the Thrashers made 11 goal attempts.
The second started off with the Thrashers continuing from where they left off in the first period. They were definitely stronger of the two teams in defence as well as offence. However, despite all this weren’t able to find the back of the net.
The Maple Leafs also came up with a few shots on goal but they too couldn’t score as the period ended with the Maple Leafs still leading 2-0 at the end of the period. During the course of the period the Maple Leafs made 5 goal attempts while the Thrashers
made 11 goal attempts.
The final 20 minutes of play were totally dominated by the Thrashers as they came up with shots on goal every now and then.
The strength in the Thrashers offence proved to be too much and they scored in the very first minute during power play to cut the lead to just one goal. The goal was scored by Andrew Ladd from a quick fired shot.
The Thrashers continued to pile shots on goal and scored once again in the 16th minute through Tim Stapleton from a powerful strike to level the scores.
The period ended with no further goals as the Thrashers made 20 goal attempts in the period and the Maple Leafs made just 6. The scores were level on 2-2 so the game went into overtime.
During overtime, Ron Hainsey scored in the third minute to win the game 3-2 for the Thrashers.
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