Ryan O'Reilly buries first goals with Leafs in hat-trick effort vs. former team

Ryan O'Reilly is on the board for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and he did it in style.

The newest member of the blue and white tallied his first and second goals — in his third game — with the team mere seconds apart, breaking open the scoring and kicking off a fleury of Maple Leafs offense during Toronto's clash with the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night.

O’Reilly got the party started just under four minutes in off a slick Mitch Marner feed into the slot for his first as a Maple Leaf and 13th of the season.

Then, just 37 seconds later, the Southern Ontario product double-dipped against his former squad, springing into the offensive zone ahead of another beautiful Marner pass before showing off his hands and finishing prowess, beating Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen with a gorgeous backhander for his 14th goal of the campaign and second with the Leafs — just like that.

O’Reilly and the Maple Leafs' new-look second line weren’t even done there, as John Tavares would add a third tally for Toronto well before the mid-way point of the opening frame, with O’Reilly adding a helper on the goal and Marner — who put up the first five-assist game of his career on Tuesday — providing the playmaking heroics once again for his third primary assist just 7:14 into the contest.