Maple Leafs G Reimer wins 1st NHL start, tops Sens
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Tyler Bozak scored two goals, rookie James Reimer made 32 saves in his first NHL start, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Ottawa Senators 5-1 on Saturday night.
Darryl Boyce scored his first NHL goal and Clarke MacArthur and Luke Schenn also tallied for Toronto, which led 5-0 just over 5 minutes into the second.
Joey Crabb and Phil Kessel assisted on a pair of goals by Bozak 2:57 apart in the first period, and the Maple Leafs won for the second time in six games. Tomas Kaberle also had two assists.
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Sergei Gonchar scored a power-play goal later in the second for Ottawa, which lost its third in a row (0-2-1). Brian Elliott stopped four of seven shots before he was replaced 16:10 into the game. Mike Brodeur made 12 saves in relief.
MacArthur opened the scoring at 1:57. He spun around to drive a shot past Elliott for his 10th goal.
Kessel stripped the puck off defenseman Erik Karlsson and passed it to Crabb to begin the play that led to Toronto's second goal.
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Crabb drove into the Senators zone and passed the puck back to Bozak, who fired a shot past Elliott from the slot at 12:24.
Bozak struck again at 15:21, combining with his linemates again to make it 3-0.
Boyce, who got an assist in his season debut on Thursday, made it 4-0 when he beat Brodeur 3:18 into the second for his first goal.
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Schenn's second of the season made it 5-0 at 5:46.
Reimer made 11 saves in the first, 10 in the second — when he was beaten for Gonchar's fifth goal — and 11 more in the third. He stopped each of the four shots he faced in his debut on Dec. 20, when he relieved Jonas Gustavsson in Toronto's 6-3 loss to Atlanta.
NOTES: Maple Leafs C John Mitchell was a healthy scratch. ... Senators LW Jarkko Ruutu was left out of the lineup for a second night in a row.