from Terry Koshan of the Toronto Sun,

Some scary stuff went down at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday night.

It was Halloween, all right, and the Maple Leafs showed up for work dressed up as a bunch of hockey players.

The costumes might have looked familiar, but the men wearing them certainly didn’t.

In their first game at home following a five-game trip, the Leafs treated their fans to few tricks, coming up flat and small in a 4-1 loss against the Los Angeles Kings.

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from Sonny Sachdeva of Sportsnet,

With the stands at Scotiabank Arena full of plastic masks, outlandish wigs, blue-and-white jerseys stuffed under all manner of comical costumes, the home crowd rang in Halloween 2023 by raining boos down upon their Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday night.

The barrage came 40 minutes into an evening that saw the home side come out lifeless against the quicker, steadier Los Angeles Kings, and ultimately find themselves unable to rise again before the tilt was through.

“We were flat from the start,” a perturbed Sheldon Keefe said of his club after the eventual 4-1 loss was in the books. “We had a couple surges through the game at different times but nothing sustained. You know, you’re climbing out of a hole against a very good, structured team, it’s tough sledding.”

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Game highlights are below.