Just about everything looked in place. The home opener was a sellout. The team’s leading defender was back in the lineup after missing the season opener.

The Sceptres even scored the first goal and thoroughly dominated the first period.

Then all that momentum came to a crashing halt.

The Sceptres were a buzzsaw most of the night hitting the Fleet in waves of attack after attack, but after that first Blayre Turnbull goal, short-handed no less, the Sceptres couldn’t break that shell that is Aerin Frankel and the Fleet turned a lucky bounce and one blown defensive zone coverage by the Sceptres into a 3-1 win,spoiling the Toronto opener.

Consider the Fleet were held to just 12 shots all game, but scored twice, and then added an insurance marker into the empty net. The season is young, gran

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