Toronto snaps streak against the team it needed to.

[Peace 1,532]

Seixteen minutes have passed in the first period, and the Toronto Legion are dominantly established in the attacking zone. It feels good, the pressure is mounting and the Wolves are getting frustrated with surprisingly sloppy defensive play.

Chad Magnum takes a shot -- the puck sails wide of his mark -- careening behind Spyro and back up the boards to Kristopher McDagg. He lets a shot loose, and the puck screams wide with a thud! on the end boards. It rolls all the way back to the blue line, and Erik Killinger wrists one towards the net. He misses, just like the two Legion players before him, but the defencemen collects his own mistake before making a quick pass to Anthony Matthews. 

Penalty is drawn on the play. Manzer is gone for two after boarding the unsuspecting Legion player. 

Toronto's Teemu Lethinen Jr wins the face off and cycles on the offensive zone, but a pass is intercepted and sent back into the Legion territory. They collect it, press the attack, but the Wolves stand firm and intercept another pass -- they fire it back into the Legions' zone, and now they're forced to retrieve the puck. Thirty seconds have elapsed on what appears to be just another pathetic excuse for Toronto's power play of recent. 

But they break in. Kristopher McDagg takes a shot... rebound! Erik Killinger pinches in from the point with a slap shot, but Spyro makes the save and covers up. 

Anthony Matthews wins the face off back to Fredrik Elmebeck, who sends it over to McDagg. The Legion cycle the puck between players, looking for the best opportunity to get on the board, and a pass to Erik Killinger is one-timed from the point. Saved with no rebound, and the Wolves take the steam out of the attack by clearing it back into Toronto's zone two more times before their next attack, where Teemu Lethinen Jr sends a shot on net that is covered up by Spyro. 

Toronto wins the face off, but the Wolves take control and get it out into neutral ice. Toronto mounts a steady defense, but eventually the play ends with Spyro covering the puck. 

Magnum wins the face off after Matthews is ejected from the dot, the puck collected by Killinger, then quickly over to Elmebeck. He sees Magnum setting up on the wing -- slap passes the puck over to the open skater -- and it's all over now. Magnum snaps a pass to an open Kristopher McDagg and he easily deposits the puck into the back of the net. It's now a 1-0 Toronto lead from a power play goal, and boy does it feel good. 

Matthews wins the face off, a few plays are made by both teams, but Toronto is once again on the attack. Shot! SCORES! 

2-0 Legion -- Matthews gives his team a two goal lead less than half a minute after the power play goal. 

This would be all they needed to carry the momentum into the second period. Shaposhnikov scored his ninth goal of the season, putting his club up 3-0, while early in the third period Erik Killinger would score on another power play to ensure a 4-2 win over the Vancouver Wolves. 

The cord was pulled. 

The streak is over.

It took eleven games to get a victory, and the Legion know this cannot happen again.