After dropping Wednesday's home tilt 5-1 to the Columbus Blue Jackets, Auston Matthews channeled his frustrations towards the energy in the building — or lack thereof. Leafs enforcer Ryan Reaves dropped the gloves for the first time this season less than two minutes into the opening period,

After an embarrassing loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, Auston Matthews called out fans for their lack of enthusiasm after a crucial early game moment.

Reaves dropped the gloves with Olivier less than two minutes into the first period of the Leafs' loss Wednesday.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are hosting the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight and things got wild in the first period. During a shift in the offensive zone, Leafs captain Auston Matthews lost his stick near the Blue Jackets net.

Toronto's captain admitted post-game that he would've liked to have heard the crowd more following Reaves' fight in the opening minutes of the game.

Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews wasn't particularly happy with what he thought was the lack of excitement from the fans.

Fantilli's 'hattie' near his hometown led the Blue Jackets to victory over the Maple Leafs and cost his mom her hat: 4 takeaways.

The Toronto Maple Leafs were on the wrong side of a lopsided encounter against the Blue Jackets. In an even more bizarre incident for the Leafs, their captain, Auston Matthews, exchanged sticks with the opposite goalie, Elvis Merzilkins.

The netminder was handed two minutes for holding Matthews’ stick (served by Blue Jackets forward Dmitri Voronkov). Matthews, meanwhile, served two minutes for Illegal Equipment at the 6:26 mark of the opening period. After the game, Matthews commented on the incident claiming he was unaware of the ruling of the infraction.

Toronto Maple Leafs and Columbus Blue Jackets are both top four in offence since mid-December and have six or more goals in ten of their last 13 matchups

Auston Matthews has had a ton of success against Columbus in his career, and our Maple Leafs vs. Blue Jackets predictions expect that to continue tonight.

Fantilli's first NHL hat trick, two-point game for Del Belluz and a big night from Merzlikins in net help Blue Jackets stun the Maple Leafs.