"This one was for Matt Stajan.

Consider the odds, In 56 games (dating back to last season), Stajan only had two goals to his name. Therefore, fans had no reason to expect the faltering forward to convert in his hometown.

The Calgary Flames centre, clearly keyed up over his first game in Toronto as a member of the enemy, actually scored in a 2-1 shootout victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Seriously, he did.

"I don't even know how to explain it," a relaxed Stajan said from his perch in the locker-room. "It felt really good. To say it was just another goal, another win - that would be lying, for sure."

The goal wasn't a beauty by any means. In a wild scramble, the former Leaf swatted the puck out of the air to beat a down-and-out Jean-Sebastien Giguere.

Another former Leaf, Niklas Hagman, drew the first assist, on the goal that broke a scoreless game open with 6:53 to go in the third period.

How does that one feel?

"Definitely excitement," said Stajan, who came to Calgary last winter in a trade with Hagman, Jamal Mayers and Ian White for Dion Phaneuf, Fredrik Sjostrom and Keith Aulie."