GAME SUMMARIES
Updated: Tuesday October 3, 2000 12:16AM EST
Sunday October 1, 2000 Detroit at Toronto (Hamilton)
Garry Valk scored with 4:01 left as Toronto beat Detroit 3-2 on Sunday night in the final exhibition game for both teams.
Darcy Tucker and Sergei Berezin added power-play goals for the Maple Leafs (4-5-0). Darren McCarty and Pat Verbeek had power-play goals for the Red Wings (4-3-2).
Detroit will open the regular season Thursday night at Calgary, while Toronto begins play Saturday night at home against Montreal.
Thursday September 28, 2000 Toronto at Detroit
Darren McCarty had three goals and an assist as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2 in an exhibition game Thursday night.
McCarty scored in the first period and added two more goals and an assist in a three-goal second that gave Detroit a 5-2 lead.
Steve Brule, Jiri Fischer and Tomas Holmstrom also scored goals for the Red Wings (4-2-1), and Sergei Fedorov had two assists.
D.J. Smith and Igor Korolev scored for the Maple Leafs (3-5-0), who managed just 21 shots against goalie Chris Osgood.
Toronto goalie Curtis Joseph gave up four goals on 16 shots through the first 29:44. Jamie Hodson added 18 saves.
Wednesday September 27, 2000 Buffalo at Toronto
Miroslav Satan scored his fourth goal of the preseason and the Buffalo Sabres improved to 6-0 by beating the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 Wednesday night.
Sergei Berezin scored twice for Toronto (3-4).
Satan faked a shot, then netted a backhand at 8:50 of the third to give Buffalo a 3-1 lead. Satan also assisted on Dimitri Kalinin's goal at 19:15 of the third, making it 4-2.
Jean-Pierre Dumont gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead at 10:47 of the first period with a backhanded goal past Glenn Healy.
Chris Gratton made it 2-0 on a wraparound at 1:08 of the second.
With a two-man advantage in the second, Berezin scored at 4:20 to cut it 2-1.
Down 3-1 in the third, Berezin scored at 10:26.
Dominik Hasek made 23 saves to improve to 3-0.
Glenn Healy stopped 14 of 18 shots for Toronto.
Sunday September 24, 2000 Toronto at Vancouver
Toronto rookie Jeff Farkas scored twice and added an assist to lift the Maple Leafs to a 5-2 exhibition win over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday.
Farkas opened the scoring on the power play with 3:26 left in the first period, then added his second goal at even strength with 1:16 left in the second to give Toronto a 4-0 lead.
Igor Korolev, who assisted on both of Farkas' goals, also scored for the Maple Leafs. Captain Mats Sundin and rookie Don MacLean had Toronto's other goals.
MacLean continued an impressive preseason with his team-leading fifth goal on a breakaway midway through the third period.
Glenn Healy made 30 saves for the victory.
The win snapped Toronto's three-game losing streak and evened its preseason record at 3-3-0-0.
Markus Naslund and Peter Schaefer scored for the Canucks, who lost for the first time in five NHL exhibition games (3-1-1-0). Combined with center Andrew Cassels, Naslund and Schaefer have formed Vancouver's top line in the preseason with 17 points in three games together.
Vancouver's highly touted Swedish twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin _ selected second and third overall in the 1999 entry draft _ watched Sunday's loss from the press box but are expected to be in the lineup for Tuesday's home game against the expansion Minnesota Wild.
Friday September 22, 2000 Toronto at Calgary
Rookie Oleg Saprykin and Jarome Iginla each scored two goals as the Calgary Flames beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8-1 in an exhibition game Friday night.
Saprykin, the 19-year-old Russian drafted 11th overall in 1999, has four goals in the exhibition season.
Tommy Albelin had a goal and three assists, and Blair Betts, Toni Lydman and Valeri Bure added goals for the Flames (3-1). D.J. Smith scored for Toronto (2-3-0).
Fred Brathwaite made 18 saves for the Flames.
Thursday September 21, 2000 Toronto at Edmonton
Doug Weight scored on a deflection with 1:57 remaining and Bill Guerin tallied twice to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-2 exhibition triumph over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
With the score tied, 2-2, Dan Cleary carried into the Toronto zone on the right side. He left the puck for defenseman Brett Hauer, who threw a shot toward the net. Weight extended fully and got the heel of his stick on the puck, redirecting it into the top left corner of the net for his first preseason goal.
The Maple Leafs had a power play in the final minute and pulled goaltender Jamie Hodson for a 6-on-4 advantage. But Guerin intercepted a clearing attempt at the Toronto blue line and scored into the empty net with eight seconds left.
Jason Chimera scored the Oilers' other goal and Tommy Salo and Joaquin Gage combined for 18 saves.
Don MacLean tallied twice for Toronto, which rested regulars Gary Roberts, Mats Sundin, Shayne Corson, Steve Thomas and Sergei Berezin.
Tuesday September 19, 2000 Vancouver at Toronto
Markus Naslund had two goals and Artem Chubarov scored with 8:37 left in the third period to give the Vancouver Canucks a 4-3 preseason win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday night.
The Maple Leafs lost for the first time in three preseason games while Vancouver won its first NHL preseason game after a pair of exhibition wins in Sweden last week.
Chubarov, a 20-year-old Russian in his second NHL season, picked up a loose puck behind Toronto's goal and jammed it in the short side past a surprised Jimmy Waite.
Greg Hawgood also scored for Vancouver, which rallied from a 3-2 deficit in the third period.
The Canucks were 0-for-7 on the power play with just four shots.
Adam Mair and Don MacLean each scored their second goal of the preseason for Toronto, and Steve Thomas scored in the third period to put the Maple Leafs ahead 3-2.
Toronto outshot Vancouver 27-20.
Swedish twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin were not in Vancouver's lineup. They're expected to make their NHL preseason debuts Wednesday in Montreal.
Sunday September 17, 2000 Calgary at Toronto
Danny Markov scored a shorthanded goal from beyond the red line with 5:33 remaining as the Toronto Maple Leafs recorded a 3-1 exhibition victory over the Calgary Flames.
The Maple Leafs were outshot in the third period, 8-2, but scored from more than 100 feet out on both chances.
Markov was trying to clear the puck with his team down a man, but he put the puck on net and it skipped past goaltender Fred Brathwaite to give Toronto a 2-1 lead.
Calgary had a chance to tie with 1:40 left when Jarome Iginla fired a shot from the left faceoff circle, but rookie Jamie Hodson knocked it away with his left pad.
Darcy Tucker scored into an empty net with one second left to seal the win.
Brad Boyes, the Maple Leafs' first-round pick in the June draft, scored a power-play goal late in the second period. Jonas Hoglund fired a slap shot that was stopped by Brathwaite, but Boyes poked in the rebound.
Ron Petrovicky scored midway through the second period for the Flames, who were 0-for-5 on the power play.
Shayne Corson, who signed with Toronto as an unrestricted free agent, sat out with the flu.
Thursday September 14, 2000 Edmonton at Toronto
Mats Sundin scored in overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Thursday night in the exhibition opener for both teams.
After Edmonton's Peter Sarno tied it with just over 30 seconds remaining in the third period, Sundin scored an unassisted goal just 13 second into overtime.
Luca Cerada, Don MacLean and Adam Mair also scored for Toronto, and Chad Kilger and Daniel Cleary added goals for Edmonton.
There were 16 penalties and two fights in the third period. Edmonton's Sean Brown pummeled Gerald Diduck in the first fight, and Toronto's Cory Cross sent Bill Guerin to the ice in the second.