TORONTO — Garret Sparks made 26 saves as the Toronto Marlies shut out the Syracuse Crunch 4-0 on Sunday in American Hockey League action.
Colin Greening, Steve Oleksy, Sergey Kalinin and Brendan Leipsic supplied the offence for the Marlies (37-26-5), who have won four straight to take over first place in the North Division.
Mike McKenna stopped 24-of-27 shots for Syracuse (33-23-11).
Things started to get chippy at 10:45 of the third period, leading to three game misconducts. Toronto's Travis Dermott and Syracuse's Dominik Masin were ejected for a second fight altercation while Crunch forward John Kurtz was sent to the locker-room early for being a third man in on a fight.
Both teams went 0 for 5 on the power play.
The Canadian Press
