"Out of the blue, Scott Laughton blocked a point shot that sprung him on a partial break, and he fired a snapshot blocker side on Sam Montembeault, who played his angle poorly. Laughton wasn't done, as a little over halfway through the first, he was sprung on a breakaway off a nice pass from Bobby McMann and hit a nice fake-shot to backhand move to slide the puck five-hole for his second tally of the period."
"However, the Leafs once again answered, as Steven Lorentz got in on the action twice in under two minutes. The first came at the tail end of a power play when Laughton fired the puck in front, which deflected off Lorentz's back leg and into the net. The second saw an almost perfect mirror of the first one - another pucks-to-the-net-with-traffic play, except this time Lorentz deflected"
Scott Laughton and Steven Lorentz combined for four goals and seven points as the Maple Leafs defeated the Canadiens 7-2 in preseason action. Laughton opened the scoring with a blocked-shot partial break and added a backhand five-hole on a breakaway. Bobby McMann scored after Matias Maccelli drew a penalty and kept play alive. Montreal tallied two power-play goals, including a Patrik Laine one-timer that exploited a puck-watching penalty kill and a seam opened by Ivan Demidov. Lorentz scored twice on deflections from traffic, and the Leafs displayed tight checking and a complete team performance.
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