Leafs Win First Game of the season.

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DETROIT - A Toronto Maple Leafs season that isn't expected to include many highlights has already produced a memorable moment.

One of the youngest teams in the NHL watched the Detroit Red Wings bring the Stanley Cup onto the ice and raise another championship banner at Joe Louis Arena before going out and beating the defending champs 3-2 on Thursday night.


Nikolai Kulemin's first NHL goal came on a third-period breakaway and stood up as the winner for a revamped Maple Leafs team that dressed eight new players. Four of them, including the 22-year-old Kulemin, were playing their first NHL game.