Maple Leafs 6, Ducks 3, final.
The 14,291 in attendance at Honda Center gave a warm ovation to Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke in his return to Anaheim on Monday -- his first game against the franchise he built into a Stanley Cup champion.
But that was about the only friendly moment in a game of bad blood that worked against the Ducks, whose 6-3 loss was their fourth straight, all of which have come during their current homestand.
Petteri Nokelainen, Bobby Ryan and Corey Perry scored goals, Jonas Hiller stopped 33 of 39, but the Ducks were undone by five power-play goals by the Maple Leafs -- who ended a historic stretch of futility with their first win of the season in their ninth game.
More details in tomorrow's editions.
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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