Sabres score 4 unanswered goals to beat Maple Leafs in Heritage Classic in Hamilton
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Kyle Dubas emphatically backed his goaltending last week.
Some 11 days later in the same building, the Maple Leafs general manager could only look on from a Tim Hortons Field private suite as another crease miscue cost his team yet more points in the standings.
With the score tied 2-2 in the third period, under-fire Leafs netminder Petr Mrazek failed to seal his post on the centre's shot from the corner that snuck between his arm and near post for his 10th goal of the season.
"I knew he was going to shoot it," Mrazek said following a 33-save showing. "I was too high."
Despite watching another howler go in against his club, Toronto head coach Sheldon Keefe declined to blame his goaltending on a windy afternoon and early evening after pulling Mrazek in Thursday's 5-4 overtime lose to the Arizona Coyotes.
"I thought Petr was good," he said. "It's not an easy environment to play in, especially for a goaltender.
"He looked solid all things considered."
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Peyton Krebs buried two goals of his own for Buffalo (20-32-8), which got 34 stops from Craig Anderson. Tage Thompson had the empty netter to go along with an assist, while Hinostroza set up Krebs' opener for a three-point performance.
Auston Matthews added to his NHL goal lead with his 45th of the season, while Ondrej Kase also scored for Toronto (37-17-5).
After Hinostroza put the Sabres in front for the first time, Krebs made it 4-2 with 6:11 left with his sixth that trickled through Mrazek after the Leafs goaltender dislodged the net on a strange play that stood up after video review.
Thompson added a short-handed empty netter for his 24th with 2:25 left in regulation as the Sabres — 33 points back of the Leafs in the standings at the start of play — downed Toronto for the second time in 12 days.
Fans in attendance at the home of the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats, roughly 70 kilometres from Toronto and 100 kilometres from Buffalo, bundled up on a day where the temperature felt like minus-7 C when factoring in the wind chill for the 4 p.m. local time puck drop.
"It was obviously an adaptation to the elements," said Matthews, who had a cross-checking altercation with Sabres defenceman Rasmus Dahlin in the third.
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