"Joffrey Lupul couldn't help but wonder aloud on Saturday night.

A week after the Maple Leafs' trio of Lupul, Phil Kessel and Dion Phaneuf were booed and ridiculed during all-star festivities in the nation's capital, the three helped shove it back down the throats of Ottawa Senators fans, combining for six points in a 5-0 Toronto triumph at Scotiabank Place.

"I'm not sure where all those fans were tonight," Lupul said. "It looked like all blue and white as far as I saw. That was probably the best standing ovation we got all season at the end of the game. That feels pretty good in the someone else's building, for our crowd to dominate like that."

The latest game in the Battle of Ontario was just like a Leafs-Senators playoff game of years past — the crowd was electric, the pace was quick and the Leafs won.

The Leafs brought their big guns, as Kessel had one of his best games of the season and Lupul set a personal high for points in one year. The Senators carried nothing more than pop guns, their 49 shots (the most allowed by the Leafs this season, but was it really that many?) mostly from the perimeter on James Reimer, who has two shutouts in two games. The Sens have lost a season-high six in a row."