Flames give up first goal for the eighth straight game, fall 4-0 to Leafs
TORONTO — Falling behind has become a routine for the Calgary Flames. Monday night at the Air Canada Centre was no different.
Calgary allowed the first goal of the game — again — en route to their third loss in a row, a 4-0 defeat by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Flames kept it scoreless until the 18:59 mark of the first period, but that was when Mitch Marner redirected a Nikita Zaitsev point shot past Brian Elliott — making it eight straight games that Calgary has surrendered the opening goal and fallen behind.
“I think if we don’t let in that goal at the end of the first it’s a whole different game,” said Elliott, who finished with 24 saves. “We won a draw and (the puck) ended up back in our zone after an icing and sometimes you hurt yourself a little bit.”