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HAMILTON, Ont. -- The Toronto Marlies took advantage of a tired Hamilton Bulldogs team playing its third game in as many days to get back into the win column on Sunday. Jerry DAmigo scored the eventual winner into an empty net to lift the Marlies over the Bulldogs 3-2 in American Hockey League action. The Marlies win followed a 4-1 loss to the Rochester Americans in Toronto on Saturday. "We had to get some retribution for yesterday, where we let a home game slip away," said Toronto head coach Steve Spott. "We wanted to come in here and let the schedule do us some favours. "We knew that Hamilton had a tough trip from Utica last night, and we were able to take advantage of that." Jerred Smithson and Greg McKegg chipped in with goals for the Marlies (5-3-0), and Drew MacIntyre made 20 saves. Nick Tarnasky and Greg Pateryn scored for the Bulldogs (4-2-2), and Robert Mayer made 23 saves in a losing effort. The Marlies wasted no time in opening the scoring, pouncing on a defensive zone giveaway by the Bulldogs just 24 seconds into the opening period. Stuart Percy stole the puck and curled along the left boards before finding a streaking Smithson with a cross-ice pass. Smithson quickly corralled the puck in the low slot and chipped a wrist shot over the outstretched glove of Mayer. Toronto continued to press as Hamilton found itself in penalty trouble in the first period. The Marlies enjoyed a two-man advantage for 1:44 after Martin St. Pierre was whistled for boarding at 5:58, but Toronto ran into a bit of bad luck as they hit the post twice on the power play. Hamiltons lack of discipline continued shortly after the 5-on-3 as Pateryn was whistled for high-sticking at 8:37 to send Toronto back on the power play. McKegg doubled the Marlies lead on the ensuing man advantage, receiving a pass from Josh Leivo just outside the goal crease and sliding a close-range shot inside Mayers far post at 8:51 of the first period. Spott was pleased with his teams bright start to the game, saying it helped ease some of the burden off its defenders. " 1/8The start 3/8 was good, and it took the heat off of us a little bit," he said. "We still could have had another goal or two because of our power play." Sven Andrighetto had an opportunity to cut the Bulldogs deficit in half, when a lead pass found him alone in the low slot six and half minutes into the second period. The winger shifted to his backhand side, but his shot slid just wide of MacIntyres far post. Andrighetto came close once again just minutes later, when Akim Aliu drove down the right wing and dropped a pass to the trailing winger. He had time and space as he skated into the low slot, but fired a wrist shot high and wide of MacIntyres near post. Tarnasky gave the Bulldogs a late glimmer of hope in the third period, cutting the deficit in half on the power play at 17:54. Nathan Beaulieu took a low slapshot from the point that MacIntyre saved but spilled into the slot, and Tarnasky corralled the rebound, moved to his backhand and slotted the puck past the sprawling goaltender. DAmigo responded for the Marlies to restore the two-goal lead at 18:48 of the period, slotting a low shot into the empty net with Mayer pulled for his first goal of the season. Pateryn made the final seconds interesting as he snuck in from the point and snapped a high shot past MacIntyre to bring the Bulldogs within a goal with 18 seconds to play. It ultimately fell just short, but Hamilton head coach Sylvain Lefebvre was encouraged by his teams spirited comeback attempt. "Im happy with the effort," said Lefebvre. "Its not human to play three games in less than three days. 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The only thing we ever heard on them was that they were the frontrunners to get him. And apparently they were. It just made so much sense. With all due respect to Max Scherzer, Lester was the best pitcher on the market. Hes a bulldog and he wins in October. If you are a team that is on the cusp of getting ready to compete, there is no better pitcher to have at the top of your rotation than Lester. The Cubs are coming. Youd be out of your mind to say the club is going to win a World Series, because, well, you know, after all they are the Cubs, but they are a heck of a lot closer now than they were yesterday. Lester was in the midst of another magnificent season for the Red Sox in 2014, but with the team out of contention and his pending free agent status, Boston sent him to the Oakland Athletics at the non-waiver trade deadline for slugger Yoenis Cespedes. Oakland may have struggled after the trade, but Lester certainly wasnt to blame, as he went 6-4 with a 2.35 ERA and was a key reason why the Athletics reached the American League Wild Card Game. Overall, Lester was 16-11 with a 2.46 ERA last season. Lesters real value, though, comes in the postseason, where he has established himself as one of the best big game pitchers in baseball. So, as the Cubs eye their first World Series title since 1908, they now have an ace who has won all three of his starts in the Fall Classic and has only surrendered one run in 21 innings of those contests. As big a winner as the Cubs are in all this, there may not be a team happier than the Philadelphia Phillies. Withh Lester off the board, Boston desperately needs a front of the line starter.dddddddddddd Scherzer doesnt make a whole lot of sense for them. If they werent going to go much higher money wise to bring Lester back, I cant imagine them getting into bed with Scherzer, who reportedly wants north of $200 million. Desperate times call for desperate measures, though. like the New York Yankees, you can never really count the BoSox out on anything, but the guy they are going to target is Phillies lefty Cole Hamels. The Red Sox were linked to Hamels right at the start of the offseason and they probably could have had him for a little more than a song and a dance. But everything has now changed. The Phillies know the Red Sox are desperate and now Boston general manager Ben Cherington is going to have to give up a player, or two, that he did not want to. Xander Bogaerts, Blake Swihart, Mookie Betts. They are all in play now. And dont forget Yoenis Cespedes either. Two of those guys may have to go in a deal to get it done. And Philadelphia should hold out for as much as it can. Thats what makes the Oakland Athletics deal of Jeff Samardzija even more puzzling. We all knew they were going to deal him, but how about they wait until Lester signs and maybe build up some sort of bidding war with the teams that missed out on him. I just dont know what the As are doing. They got nowhere near enough for Josh Donaldson, they traded an All-Star first baseman in Brandon Moss for a 25- year-old infielder who has never played above Double-A and that was all after they signed Billy Butler to a $30 million deal. Oh and the shortstop they got from the White Sox in the Samardzija deal is far less of a prospect than the one they surrendered in the original Samardzija trade. But Billy Beane is a genius, so we just have to nod our heads and accept what hes doing, right? Think about what you thought of the As the day after the Lester trade. Now think about where they are today. Lets put it this way, they are lucky the Houston Astros are in the AL West. But, if you have been paying attention, they may not be the doormat they have been in recent years. Lester, though, was the first domino to fall at these Winter Meetings. Maybe now well start to see some movement. ' ' '