Hanson gets first NHL Goal as Leafs dump Devils

First of all, would all you media meat heads drop the whole ' son of a Hanson Brother '
crap already!

Cristian Hanson did indeed score his first NHL goal tonight in a 4-1 win over Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils.

“We stuck to our system,” Hanson said. “We knew we had to play a certain way against New Jersey and we stuck to it and Martin Gerber was the difference maker. He stood on his head. He was phenomenal.”

Hanson got it against his favorite player, Martin Brodeur, and the Toronto Maple Leafs rookie didn’t seem to care it didn’t come on a slap shot.

“To be honest I would have taken it any way it would have gone in. Off my head, off my butt, off my skate, and luckily it went off my stick,” said Hanson, whose backhander capped a three-goal first period that led Toronto to a 4-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.

Martin Gerber also shone for the Leafs making 47 stops for his fifth win as a Leaf.

“We did a much better job of pushing them away from the net,” Gerber said. “It gives you a split second more time and you have a better chance to read the game. That’s a big difference from the last two games.”

Hamilton, Mitchell and Grabovski also scored for Toronto. For Grabovski, it was his 20th of the season.



The Leafs next action comes tomorrow night against the Sabres. As always, you can hear all of the action live right here on Bench Brawl!