"This is the team Brian Burke thought he had assembled.

And it apparently travels best with lots and lots of noisy friends.

Five months into the 2011-12 campaign, the Maple Leafs are again injury free. On this Saturday night at least, that made them a dominant hockey club.

This 5-0 triumph over the Ottawa Senators was more than a 5-0 triumph. It was an emphatic statement that came just 19 days after the Sens, at that point arguably the charming surprise team of the season, strolled into the ACC and emerged with two points via a gritty comeback.

Since then, the Leafs have lost once while the Sens, suffering through the frigid winter the GTA isn't having, have won once. The once-sizeable bulge the Paul MacLean-coached Senators once held over the Leafs is down to a single point, and Ottawa has played three more games."