Overview
- Max Domi fought Radko Gudas three seconds into Monday’s opening faceoff in Anaheim, delivering the Maple Leafs’ immediate on-ice response.
- The contest stayed heated and penalty-heavy throughout, with 85 combined penalty minutes as the league’s discipline chief George Parros watched in person.
- Toronto prevailed 5-4 in overtime on John Tavares’s winner after a volatile game that swung back and forth in the third period.
- Gudas returned to the lineup despite a recent lower-body injury and said he wanted to “stand behind my own mistakes” by facing Toronto.
- The tension stems from Gudas’ March 12 knee-on-knee that tore Matthews’ MCL, led to season-ending surgery, and drew criticism when NHL Player Safety capped the suspension at five games under a phone-hearing process.