Here’s a brief summary about Timothy via Wikipedia.org
Timothy Treadwell (born Timothy William Dexter; April 29, 1957 – October 5, 2003) was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People. He lived among coastal brown bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) in Katmai National Park, Alaska, for 13 summers.
On October 5, 2003, Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed and almost fully eaten by a 28-year-old male bear whose stomach was later found to contain human remains and clothing.[2] Treadwell's life, work, and death were the subject of Werner Herzog's critically acclaimed documentary film Grizzly Man (2005).

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In February 2016, the Russian Orthodox Church’s Bishops’ Council made amendments to the ROC Charter, according to which Mongolia was included in the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church. It demonstrates a special attitude towards Mongolia on the part of the ROC. That amendment was explained both by the historical position of Mongolia in the Russian Empire’s sphere of influence and by the present time; since the early 1990s, none of the Local Orthodox Churches, except the Russian Church, has sent missionaries to Mongolia.
Over the fourteen years of Fr. Alexei Trubach’s service as the rector (2005–2019), energetic missionary activities in various fields were organized in Mongolia (mainly in the cities of Ulaanbaatar and Erdenet). As a result, a strong multinational Orthodox community has been built in Mongolia, consisting not only of Russian-speaking citizens of Russia and Mongolia, but also of those Mongolians and citizens of third countries for whom modern Russian is as foreign and incomprehensible as liturgical Church Slavonic.
The expectations of Fr. Eugene Startsev (then rector of the Church of the Hodegetria Icon in Ulan–Ude, now a cleric of the Irkutsk Diocese), which he expressed during his trip to the Khalkhin Gol in August 2005, were surprisingly fulfilled:
“Batiushka labors absolutely selflessly in this field… He is zealous in his ministry. He serves alone in the church—he censes, reads and sings himself. Fr. Alexei has extensive plans. I think that for the most part they are destined to come true, because he is a serious priest. I am sure that he will have a choir and a reader.” [1]
Indeed, on the foundation laid by the clergy of the Chita and Transbaikal Diocese and by the first rector of the parish, Archpriest Anatoly Fesechko, Archpriest Alexei arranged a well-organized, systematic liturgical and extra-liturgical life; a church choir was formed from professional Mongolian singers—a rare phenomenon for modern Russian churches abroad. Three acolytes served in the church altar, and services began to be translated into Mongolian.
During the Divine Liturgy, the Great Litany and antiphons began to be proclaimed and sung in Mongolian, the Epistles and the Gospel are read in three languages: Church Slavonic, Mongolian and English. This principle of addressing the country’s local population in their native language is even implemented in the paintings of the Holy Trinity Church, on the walls of which there are the initial words of the Creed in Mongolian. The Third and the Sixth Hours are served in Mongolian as well.
In addition to the celebration of all services according to the Typikon, a sports and cultural and educational center began to function stably in the parish. From December 2008 [2] to January 2013, the Troitsa (“Trinity”) parish newspaper was printed in Russian and Mongolian. Catechetical literature (by St. Nikolaj [Velimirovic] of Zica and Priest Georgy Maximov, our contemporary) and prayer-books (the morning and evening prayer rules) were translated into Mongolian. Besides, since the late 2006 there has been a parish website, which is currently being modernized. In addition to the website, the parish's social media page appeared under the next rector, Priest Anthony Gusev.
Archpriest Alexei Trubach fulfilled all the tasks he had been entrusted with and on May 30, 2019, due to the end of his mission term, by the decision of the Holy Synod, he was released from his obedience as rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Ulaanbaatar.
Priest Anthony Gusev with his wife Anastasia and son Timothy
Priest Anthony Gusev, a cleric of the Orenburg Diocese, was appointed next rector by decree of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia on July 5, 2019. Prior to sending him to Mongolia, the Church hierarchy charged him with a task that may seem ordinary: “to preserve the parish.” Providentially, it was six months before mankind was faced with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Having experience in organizing and carrying out design and repair work, in the first months after his arrival in Ulaanbaatar Fr. Anthony repaired the parish apartment, the roof of the parish building and the gym (ventilation, lighting) and arranged for the exterior whitewashing of the building and the church. Later, as funds accumulated, the heating system inside the church was improved, and the furniture in the sanctuary was partially replaced.
The task that the Church hierarchy had set before Fr. Anthony became particularly relevant during the period of strict lockdowns and other precautionary measures imposed in Mongolia for quite a long time in response to the spread of coronavirus. From February 2020 to September 2021 (with rare short intervals) the church was closed for public worship and even for visitors. Movement around the city during lockdowns was limited, many parishioners fell ill, and most residents of the country were simply afraid to leave their homes. In such circumstances, to keep people in a prayerful mood, strengthen their faith, organize services, and provide an opportunity for Orthodox parishioners to attend them was an absolutely new challenge that the Russian Orthodox Church in Mongolia faced.
Thanks to the personal participation of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Mongolia I.K. Azizov and the close ties established in Ulaanbaatar by Fr. Anthony Gusev, it became possible to celebrate the Divine Liturgy during lockdowns, first in the cinema hall of the Russian Embassy building in Mongolia, where Pascha was celebrated in 2020, and then in the Trade Mission’s outbuilding. Thus, active interaction of the Church and State allowed the Orthodox in Mongolia even during restrictions to participate in the most important Church sacrament—the Eucharist.
With the support of Russian firms and agencies of Russian companies, food packages were collected twice a year in the parish in order to support socially vulnerable segments of the population, whose numbers had noticeably increased owing to the stresses caused by measures to combat COVID-19. In addition, in July–August 2021, an extended-day group was temporarily organized within the walls of the parish building for children of Russian compatriots who, under quarantine measures, had to stay at home all the time and were unable to attend preschool educational institutions.
Another form of social service has been the regular collection of humanitarian aid on the territory of the parish for people in the SMO zone with the active participation of the Coordination Council of the Organization of Russian Compatriots in Mongolia.
We should also mention apologetic work carried out by the Russian Orthodox Church in Mongolia. In Orthodoxy “apologetics” is understood as “defending the dignity of Christian teaching as the only true one before those who deny it” and “revealing and defending Christian teaching with the help of means used by adherents of other faiths and non-believers.” [3]
It is known that a broad range of Protestantism flourishes in Mongolia. According to some outdated information, the most numerous are evangelicals (having about 36,000 people, 400 communities, and forty-seven NGOs) and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons; around 8,000–10,000 members, thirty branches, and over 160 missionaries). [4]
In 2010 the comprehensive encyclopedia called Religions of the World by the American religious scholar J. Gordon Melton (a member of the United Methodist Church) estimated that Christians make up 1.7 percent of the country’s population (47,100 adherents). [5] According to the 2020 census, the number of Christians in Mongolia among those over the age of fifteen has dropped to 2.2 percent [6]. According to a survey conducted by the Institute of Philosophy of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2.4 percent of the population identify themselves as Christians among the country’s religious citizens. [7]
In addition, certain conditions for the position of Orthodoxy in Mongolia are imposed by some articles of the Mongolian Law “On the Relationship Between the State and Religious Institutions”, which has already been considered in part 1. It regulates missionary activities of preachers of “non-traditional” religions. So for example, according to paragraph 2 of Article 3, “it is prohibited to compel citizens to embrace or not embrace a faith”; according to paragraph 7 of Article 4, “it is prohibited to hold organized events to spread religion from abroad”; according to paragraph 8 of Article 4, “the State regulates the total number of clergy and the locations of churches.” [8] This circumstance entails the annual practice of extending State registration of religious organizations, including Orthodox parishes.
The process of annual re-registration of a religious organization is rather complicated, lengthy and requires certain skills. Nevertheless, recently some representatives of the capital city authorities have met the Holy Trinity parish halfway, moving away from their notorious formalism. It is largely thanks to both the diplomacy of the rectors of the Orthodox parish and the authorities’ sincere amazement: “It appears that, unlike many Protestant organizations, the Orthodox in Mongolia just pray without participating in other, non-religious activities.” [9]
The abundance and diversity of Christian teachings in Mongolia creates a rich polemical environment for Orthodox missionaries. Orthodox clergy and laypeople regularly talk about the faith with the capital city residents and in the country in general not only at their parish, but also in everyday life situations. As a result, some Mongolians, Russians, and citizens of third countries permanently residing in Mongolia convert to Orthodoxy. Besides, many Mongolians living in Ulaanbaatar who are located outside the area where the Russian church is situated learn about the Holy Trinity parish’s existence and about Orthodox Christianity solely from such conversations.
The population of the country is quite tolerant of and somewhat indifferent to the vestments of Orthodox priests, so over the fourteen years of his ministry in Mongolia Fr. Alexei Trubach always walked freely around the city in his cassock, which, according to him, was also a form of mission. Fr. Anthony adheres to a similar practice.
During the two modern stages, under Priests Alexei and Anthony, regular talks were held with Mongolian residents who had suffered after going to shamans and turned to Orthodox clergy for spiritual help and support. This applied both to unbaptized Mongolians (some of whom were later baptized, but in most cases continued to adhere to their beliefs and to turn to shamans for “help” again) and to baptized but non-religious local Russians, who culturally partially merge with the native population of Mongolia, the spirituality of which is mainly a blend of Buddhist beliefs and shamanic and other pre-Buddhist cults.
Under Fr. Alexei Trubach, the Russian Orthodox Church in Mongolia established warm, friendly relations with both the head of the largest local Buddhist sangha (the Mongolian Buddhist Association, head abbot of Gandantegchinlen Monastery in Ulaanbaatar) D. Choijamts (served from 1993 to 2023) and the Catholic Bishops Wenceslao Padilla (2002–2018) and his successor Giorgio Marengo (cardinal since August 2022) and other clerics of the Roman Catholic Church.
Since 2021, there has been a regular practice of organizing and holding interfaith dialogues (Orthodox-Catholic, Orthodox-Buddhist, and other round tables) and mutual visits on the occasion of commemorative and solemn events.
During his five-year ministry, Fr. Anthony, despite the challenges of the pandemic, did not interrupt his liturgical activity, organizing the collection of humanitarian aid for both poor residents of Ulaanbaatar (during lockdowns), regardless of their denominations, and for people in the war zone, repairing the parish building, the gym and arranging the whitewashing of the church (which hadn’t been whitewashed since the time it was built). He takes an active part in official events of the Russian Embassy in Mongolia and the Russkiy Dom (“Russian House”) Russian Scientific and Cultural Center, cooperates with many Russian and Mongolian public organizations, involving all interested citizens in the development of parish life, maintaining relations with members of numerous non-Orthodox denominations in the country. Moreover, together with representatives of Russian search expeditions he more than once visited the battlefields in Dornod Aimag (province), where memorial services were celebrated for those who were killed there.
A gym continues to function on the territory of the parish, where fitness training and martial arts training sessions are held; the Anima art school is still open, and among its students there are children with various congenital diseases. The parish has a Sunday school for children, where parishioners teach. Some Sunday school students were born in Mongolia from both Russian and mixed marriages, and were baptized within the walls of the Holy Trinity Church. Regularly after the Sunday Divine Liturgy and the subsequent meal, reading and study of the Holy Scriptures is organized.
The number of parishioners is growing and is not limited only to Russian-speaking citizens of Russia and Mongolia. According to Fr. Anthony, today there are 150-200 parishioners in the country’s only Orthodox church, with thirty to seventy people praying at Sunday services—these are Russians, Mongolians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Greeks, Serbs, Britons, Americans, Georgians, Poles, Canadians and New Zealanders. [10]
The great merit of the Russian Orthodox Church in Mongolia is the integration into Church life of baptized people—those who are usually perceived as Orthodox “by definition”. Many local Russian specialists permanently residing in Mongolia, as well as those on business trips from Russia, without adhering to any particular religious system (even if they are baptized), are quite easily drawn into all sorts of local Buddhist teachings, Shamanistic and Parabuddhist cults. [11]
But not all plans have been implemented so far. For example, the large-scale reconstruction of the church park area and the construction of a chapel-burial vault in the southwestern part of the parish area, in which the remains of Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in 1939 will be buried, are still planned.
Thus, the three rectors of the Holy Trinity Parish of Ulaanbaatar at the present stage of the history of Orthodoxy in Mongolia have successfully solved the specific tasks assigned to them by God. Under Fr. Anatoly Fesechko, a house church was equipped, the parish building was rebuilt, and the foundation of the Orthodox community, which exists in the parish to this day, was laid. Under Archpriest Alexei Trubach, the church was built, the surrounding area was beautified, a gym appeared and liturgical and extra-liturgical parish life was organized in all possible forms. Under Priest Anthony Gusev, the parish withstood the unprecedented test of the pandemic, and Orthodox residents of the capital could participate in joint services during lockdowns, the community was preserved and new members are still joining today.
The results and prospects of 160 years of service
The purpose of this article was not only to demonstrate some key episodes related to the history of Orthodoxy in Mongolia ahead of the 160th anniversary of its existence, but also to show that the example of Mongolia and its Orthodox community clearly shows the universal nature of the Orthodox faith, where there is neither Greek nor Jew (Col. 3:11); neither a local Russian, nor a Mongol, nor a Russian diplomat, nor a descendant from a mixed marriage (whether between a Russian and a Mongolian or a Mongolian and a Briton)…
In the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries, the imperial mood of Mongolian khans allowed them to become closer to Orthodox preachers, who felt comfortable in the capital of the empire—Karakorum. A natural development of these relations was the establishment of the Diocese of Sarai in the Golden Horde, which bound together the Horde and Russia, performing certain diplomatic mediation functions for the Byzantine Empire and the Russian princes alike.
The clergy of the Diocese of Sarai and other dioceses bordering the Horde, despite their secure existence under imperial patronage, were quite passive in mission. Despite this, the scarce (in terms of numbers) preaching of Orthodoxy had a wholesome effect on the hearts of some individual Horde representatives. And speaking about some of the major figures of the joint Russo-Mongolian past, we can’t ignore their confession of the Orthodox faith. First of all, these are three saints: the Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky, the Venerable Tsarevich Peter of the Horde and the Holy Hierarch Alexei of Moscow.
The history of Orthodox Mongolia of the nineteenth–early twentieth centuries acquaints us with the great spiritual labors of a number of priests who bound together the churches of the Irkutsk Diocese, Transbaikalia, Mongolia and China, and in most cases remained faithful to God to the death. And if readers have a desire to pray for the repose of the souls of the Orthodox clergy of Urga, it would be the best tribute to Archpriests John, Mily and Fyodor, Hieromonks Sergei, Gerontius and Cornelius, Priests Alexei, Vsevolod, and two Nicholases.
In February 1998, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations, in a letter to His Eminence Innokenty, Bishop of Chita and Transbaikalia, written on the occasion of the appointment of permanent rector to Ulaanbaatar and in gratitude to Priest Oleg Matveyev, who had temporarily pastored the Orthodox faithful in Mongolia, expressed the hope that “in the future the spiritual bonds traditionally uniting the Orthodox parishes of Transbaikalia and Mongolia will be preserved.” [12] Today the Holy Trinity Parish of Ulaanbaatar has strong friendly relations with the Orthodox parishes of the Buryat Metropolia, with the clergy concelebrating and parishioners making mutual pilgrimages. To date, a strong multinational and multilingual community has developed in Mongolia on the basis of a single Orthodox parish, which should become the foundation and model for further missionary work in this country.
Priest Vladislav Terentyev
Source: OrthoChristian
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1 Pospelov A. Through Mongolia With a Cross. 12/30/2005 // PravoslavieRu website.
2 Mitypova G.S. Op.cit. P. 58.
3 Apologetics // The AzbukaVery website.
4 Sabirov R.T. Sociocultural Factors of the Mongolians' Conversion to Christianity After 1990 // Christianity in South and East Asia: History and the Present / Chief editor: I. I. Abylgaziev; Managing editor: O. V. Novakova. Moscow: Klyuch-S, 2016. P. 119.
5 Melton J.Gordon. Mongolia // Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices / Edited by J. G. Melton, M. Baumann. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2010. p. 1938.
6 Hun am, oron suutsny 2020 ony ulsyn eljit toollogyn nagdsen dun...X. 5.
7 Monkhchimeg B. S. Yanzhinsuren: Shashny munkhruulgad hat autage sankhuugeer khokhirson khun tsongui // Website "Peak.mn ". 2021.
8 Tor, sum hiidiin hariltsaany tukhai…
9 Basenkov V. My Service in Mongolia is an Utterly Radiant Event. 03/10/2023
10 Ibid.
11 In general, Russians in Mongolia are “characterized historically by resorting to Shamanism and Buddhism though formally declaring they are Orthodox” (See: Mikhalev A.V. The Russian Diaspora in Mongolia: the Stages of the Formation of Frontier Religious Practices // The Orient (Oriens). 2017. No. 2. Pp. 62-71).
12 Kornienko N.N., Plekhanova A.M. Op.cit. P. 159.

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[Anthony Petrielli MLHS]
The shorthanded Maple Leafs impressively built a 5-0 lead against a red-hot Oilers team before making life a lot more interesting than it needed to be in the third period.
With another game tomorrow night, the Leafs ideally would’ve coasted in the third period and preserved their legs. You also would have liked to see them make Ilya Samsonov’s life easy down the stretch of the game. Of course, the two points are great, but a big part of the story tonight is whether Samsonov is okay after leaving the third period injured.

Sheldon Keefe says Samsonov "looks like he's going to be fine."
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) March 24, 2024

Samsonov’s situation aside, this was a good Leafs win featuring great individual performances from Bobby McMann, Pontus Holmberg, and Joel Edmundson, in particular.
Your game in 10:

1. Earlier this week against the Philadelphia Flyers, Sheldon Keefe started Knies – Tavares – Robertson for the opening draw against a hungry, desperate opponent. The Leafs won the draw, the puck was chipped up to Knies at center, and he wasn’t ready for the defenseman, who aggressively stepped up (it is how the Flyers play, and Knies should have been well aware of it). The Flyers promptly scored after the turnover (several other Leafs were also poor on the sequence), and it set the tone for the game as the Leafs were chasing it from that point onward.

Knies didn’t start the opening draw the next game against Washington — the Leafs scored on that shift — but he did tonight… and he took a penalty. The puck came up Knies’ wall, he wasn’t in a good position, McDavid cut in, and Knies was sloppy with his stick, tripping up McDavid’s feet. With the way the Leafs’ PK has been going — and considering the Oilers’ elite PP — it’s the type of start you really need to avoid, and it was instantly hold-your-breath time.
Fortunately, the Leafs PK, as well as Ilya Samsonov, stood tall. Samsonov was clearly dialed in early, especially when Bouchard ripped a slapshot through traffic and he was able to glove it cleanly with no rebound despite two Oilers in front.
Joel Edmundson also ran McDavid pretty hard with a bone-crunching hit on the wall on the penalty kill. Connor Dewar looked to be settling into the penalty-killing role; his angles were excellent, and he was closing on attackers with good pressure. Those are two relatively new additions that the Leafs are really counting on to help fix the penalty kill.
The Oilers carried momentum from the early power play even though they didn’t score, but Samsonov kept them at bay. It’s not the start the Leafs would’ve drawn up, but they dug in and showed real resolve to keep it a scoreless game.

1. After the morning skate, William Nylander said he thought the neutral zone would be the key to the game. Early on, this was particularly evident as the Leafs caused a turnover in neutral ice and scored.

The Oilers were dictating play early and held the puck behind their own net on a line-change sequence. They tried to move up ice, but Nylander forced the play up the wall and Timothy Liljegren aggressively stepped up just above the Leafs’ blue line to cause a turnover.
From there, the Leafs started a breakout sequence. Tavares collected the puck and passed it to the far corner to Jake McCabe, who went up the wall to Bobby McMann, who passed it cross-ice through the neutral zone to Nylander. Liljegren, who started the turnover, jumped up and Nylander recognized it as the Edmonton defenseman stepped up on him. Nylander chipped it up the wall for Liljegren, who won the race.
There has been so much talk about handedness lately, and this is yet another example of why you want it properly aligned. A lefty isn’t as aggressive on the stick for the original neutral-zone turnover, and a lefty doesn’t win the puck. As a righty, Liljegren did and then chipped it down low, where Tavares made an excellent play to shield the puck with his body, get it to his backhand, and find Bobby McMann all alone in front as the trailer.
From there, it was a simple one-timer home for McMann, who has 10 goals in his last 19 games. The Leafs are clearly banking on McMann as a contributor, and so far, he is delivering.

1. The Oilers kept pushing for offense after the Leafs took the initial lead, but Ilya Samsonov was excellent again. Matthew Knies was again weak on the wall before the Oilers fired a shot from the high slot that trickled through Samsonov, but Jake McCabe was there to clean it up. On another play, Noah Gregor didn’t keep the puck in and the Oilers went on a 4v2 as a result, but they over-passed it and Liljegren broke up the play.

As the period went along, though, the Leafs started to create opportunities and string together some shifts. William Nylander didn’t realize he had an empty net tap-in on one rush, electing to pull it backhand and psyching himself out. Gregor had a down-low 2v1 but had blinders on, shooting it instead of passing it, and Knies had a rebound chance in front.
Another one of those chances should have been a 2v1 as Tavares made a nice inside-out move on Bouchard on a loose-puck race as Bouchard tried to run interference, and the refs called a penalty on Tavares. It was a bad call, but the Leafs’ PK responded again.
On the first kill, Joel Edmundson was physical with McDavid. On the second kill, it was Draisaitl’s turn to be on the receiving end of Edmundson’s physicality. Edmundson was physical, he was getting in lanes, he was clearing pucks, and he was a force shorthanded. Since the trade, he has generally been fine with a few rough moments sprinkled in, but he was an actual difference-maker tonight.
Edmundson’s physicality started to rub off on his teammates. In the second half of the penalty, Benoit took a good run at Evander Kane on the wall. A second huge Leafs kill with some real emotion and physicality to it started to swing the game for the team, and it came from a shorthanded unit they desperately need to start turning it around.

1. Last Saturday against Carolina, the Leafs couldn’t score on the power play while their penalty kill gave up multiple goals. This Saturday, the penalty kill dug in, and when the Leafs finally got a power play, they capitalized.

The power play was direct, looking to attack lanes off the half-wall while using William Nylander down low in Marner’s usual place. Some of their struggles lately have been the byproduct of the lack of a down-low play with all of Nylander – Liljegren – Matthews up top, allowing the opposition to sell out. With Nylander down low, it changed the dynamic, as did adding Max Domi, another passer, to the top unit.
Off a sequence starting with a Domi shot from the half-wall, the puck went to Auston Matthews, who poked it back up to Liljegren. Liljegren patiently settled the puck down, picked his head up, and ripped a puck through some traffic into Nylander’s general vicinity in front. All alone, Nylander’s crafty deflection benefited from also going off his skate, but it was a nice tip and a nice shot from Liljegren, who offers a calibre of point shot that Rielly doesn’t possess.
The 2-0 goal made it a two-point period for Liljegren, who is up to 14 points in his last 16 games. The goal also gave Nylander a five-game goal streak.

1. Down 2-0, the Oilers came out for the second and carried play early. Their best chance came off a brutal Tavares turnover behind the net to Corey Perry, who came out with the puck and found Kane in the slot, but Simon Benoit closed and forced a flubbed shot. On another play off the rush, Warren Foegele stepped into a one-timer, but Ilya Samsonov flashed the glove. The Oilers also created another chance in the slot, but Benoit laid out for a head-first shot block attempt and the puck went wide.

As the Oilers pressured, the Leafs again were able to counterattack and capitalize on sloppy defensive play by the Oilers. We’ve already mentioned some questionable plays by Matthew Knies in the first period (there was another where, instead of chipping it off the wall for Matthews — who had speed — Knies held it and Matthews was forced to slam on the brakes to stay onside). It wasn’t particularly surprising when Keefe switched up the line and moved Pontus Holmberg up to play with Matthews and Domi.
Keefe was instantly rewarded with a goal from Holmberg. I’m not entirely sure what Evan Bouchard was thinking on the play, but he seemed afraid of Matthews lifting his stick, so he jumped around him and Matthews simply went straight to the puck and snatched it. Matthews found Domi all alone in the high slot, where Domi froze the goalie and slid it over to Holmberg for an empty net tap-in.
This was another example of Domi’s great fake-shot move we’ve seen several times this season.

1. Up 3-0, we saw the usual referee game management come into play. This time, on a weak call against Conor Timmins for cross-checking, it was more of a dive than a penalty.

Again, Joel Edmundson was physically involved, going after Draisaitl and starting a mele after the whistle. Jake McCabe was also in the mix as the game’s temperature ratcheted up significantly.
As the penalty kill ended, the puck came out of the zone for a delayed offside, but Adam Henrique didn’t want to touch the puck for an all-the-way-down faceoff, so he hesitated. Timmins, who took the penalty, stormed out of the box and raced to the puck, chipping it up and springing the Leafs on a 3v1.
Bobby McMann made a great play to wait out the sliding defender and put it past him, and Pontus Holmberg was again there on the doorstep to tap the puck in, potting his sixth goal of the season and second of the night about three minutes apart.
Holmberg has become a real Swiss Swedish army knife for the Leafs, moving up to the top line at times, penalty killing in this scenario, and chipping in some goals. He even started the game at center. We can really see the benefit of a player capable of moving up and down the lineup depending on the situation.

1. Up 4-0, the Leafs weren’t done. William Nylander grabbed some headlines earlier in the day for his quote “Not tonight” about Zach Hyman’s 50-goal push, but to me, this is why he is great for this market. It understandably made some fans clench, but Nylander came out and played an excellent game. This stuff really doesn’t get to him.

Up 4-0, the Oilers were pushing to break the shutout and get rolling. They hemmed the Leafs in for a shift, but the puck went to Nylander, who took over. He brought the puck behind the net and led the breakout, hitting Timothy Liljegren for a pass up the wall and then shooting right up the middle of the ice. Liljegren made a nice cross-ice pass to John Tavares, who saw Nylander streaking and slipped a puck through to him. Nylander took it in the middle of the ice, stopped up, froze everyone, and hit Bobby McMann on the far side. McMann ripped a cannon of a shot short side to make it 5-0.
We discussed it on the podcast this week, but the next step in McMann’s emergence was a big performance against a good team. It’s one thing to score against the Blues, Ducks, and Habs of the world; it’s another to do it against a top-10 club in the league. The Oilers are one of those teams, and he was excellent in this game with two goals and an assist to show for it.

1. Down 5-0, the Oilers were frustrated — particularly with Joel Edmundson, who was going at it with the Oilers’ top players all night. He was a major story in this game with his physicality and spunk he brought the ice for the Leafs. Nurse went over the edge at the end of the second period, going after Edmundson unprompted after the buzzer. Nurse was handed a 10-minute misconduct for his troubles, which was a feather in the cap for Edmundson.

The Leafs didn’t score on the two-minute power play to start the period before the Oilers went to a power play of their own. This time, they finally broke through.
The Leafs penalty kill was off to a good start, but then Liljegren lost his stick and the Oilers took advantage. McDavid hunted the matchup and found Hyman in front for a deflection. It was a bit of a tough break more than a penalty-killing breakdown for a unit that looked good up until that point.
A few minutes later, the Oilers went to another power play. The Leafs’ top penalty-killing unit did well, but when they changed off, McDavid stayed on. When the Oilers regained the zone, it was too easy for McDavid to cut in, causing a breakdown and a backdoor tap-in for Corey Perry (naturally) to score.
Last week against Carolina, I thought the refereeing opened the door for the Hurricanes’ comeback, but in this one, it was the Leafs’ own doing. Conor Timmins shot it over the glass, and Connor Dewar took an offensive-zone tripping penalty. Two careless, needless penalties gave the Oilers some life.

1. A three-goal lead with half the period or so to play at home should be more than enough, but the Oilers kept pushing and the Leafs didn’t generate much zone time of their own. The best defense is a good offense, and they needed to kill the clock against the Oilers’ backup goalie rather than retreating and allowing the Oilers to dictate the play. The Leafs created a few chances on the counterattack — namely, a Dewar-Gregor 2v1 that didn’t finish with a shot on net and a Knies chance in all alone — but it was one-and-done from Toronto rather than getting it in deep, forechecking, and cycling.

Eventually, the Oilers continued to pressure, and after an icing, Edmonton pulled their goalie with just under five minutes left (the right call by them). The Leafs got it out but they never got it deep, and only two of their forwards changed. Matthew Knies hung around — seemingly hunting the empty-net attempt — and got stuck on the ice for well over a minute as the Oilers gained the zone again.
Bouchard made a spin play on Knies off the wall before McDavid hit Draisaitl for a backdoor play to make it 5-3. The goal against is one thing, but Ilya Samsonov stretched to make the save and didn’t get up afterward.
Up 5-0 at home going into the third, the Leafs sat back, took some bad penalties, let the Oilers dictate the whole period, and ended up with their starter, who was playing an excellent game, leaving the ice hurt.

1. With three and a half minutes to play, Martin Jones entered the net ice cold as the Oilers were starting to believe. Last week, I didn’t understand or agree with Keefe putting out a line centered by Tavares right after the Hurricanes made it a one-goal game (they were ultimately on for the late tying goal). This time, he put out a proper checking line of Connor Dewar, David Kampf, and Bobby McMann alongside Joel Edmundson and Jake McCabe.

The Oilers gained the zone and created some chances, but the Leafs’ checking unit boxed out well and got in lanes. There was one chance where the Oilers hit the post on a bang-bang play, but at least the Leafs had their top checkers on the ice.
When the puck cleared, Keefe followed up with Pontus Holmberg – Auston Matthews – William Nylander / Morgan Rielly – Timothy Liljegren. They kept things at bay against the Oilers’ second six-man unit, but they iced the puck and the Oilers sent their big guns back out. It didn’t matter as Matthews eventually broke up a pass and scored an empty-netter from his own end to finish off the game.
The three-goal period shouldn’t have happened — it leaves a bit of a bittersweet taste in the mouth amid a great win — but the game was still very much in control up two with three minutes left and up three with five minutes left. Considering last weekend’s loss to Carolina, the Leafs don’t get the full benefit of the doubt and will need to do a better job moving forward of eating the clock in the offensive zone with the lead.

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