Halliday leads Senators past Maple Leafs
Ottawa Senators beat Maple Leafs 3-2 as Halliday scores winner and Ullmark shines Chabot and Amadio also score, with 27 saves from Ullmark to start the season strong
Stephen Halliday scored the goahead goal in the third period and Linus Ullmark made 27 saves as the Ottawa Senators beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 32 on Saturday night in Toronto.
Thomas Chabot had a goal and an assist in his first game as captain, while Michael Amadio also scored for Ottawa. Claude Giroux finished with two assists. For Toronto, Auston Matthews and Kirill Marchenko scored, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 26 shots.
Chabot opened the scoring late in the first period. Matthews tied the game early in the second, Marchenko put Toronto ahead on a power play, and Amadio evened it again before Halliday scored the winner midway through the third. The Leafs are now 120, while the Senators opened their season 100.