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Lake Erie improved to 2-1-0 on the season, while the Marlies fell to 1-1-0. Toronto opened the 2012-13 AHL campaign with a 3-1 victory over Rochester on Saturday. The Marlies outshot the Monsters 40-18, but couldnt solve the 20-year-old Pickard. After scoring three power play goals on Saturday, the Marlies went 0-for-11 with the man advantage on Sunday. Pickard was the main reason for Torontos ineffectiveness. The Monsters goalie denied Toronto centre Joe Colbourne on a second-period breakaway and stood tall in foiling six Marlies power plays in the middle period alone. "We generated some chances, but we need to execute better," Colbourne said. "I just nicked the crossbaar .dddddddddddd.. put that in and it changes the entire outlook of the game." Toronto goalie Ben Scrivens made 14 saves in a losing effort as the Monsters led 2-0 after the first period and 3-0 through 40 minutes. Walker opened the scoring when he whacked in his rebound at 8:23 of the first. After Toronto failed to connect on a 5-on-3 man advantage midway through the period, Barrie whirled around Marlies defenceman Leo Komarov at the blue-line and skated in and roofed a backhander over Scrivens blocker at 15:54. "It was a mistake by me, a junior mistake," Komarov said. "It was a good play by (Barrie), but I just cant let that happen." Pock scored the only power-play goal of the game -- during another 5-on-3 Lake Erie man advantage -- when his slapshot from the left point beat a screened Scrivens at 1:34 of the second period. Toronto had a 5-on-3 advantage shortly afterwards, but couldnt solve Pickard, who made 15 saves in the second. Luke Walker put the game on ice when he skated in alone and deposited the puck into an empty net at 13:13 of the third after Eakins had pulled Scrivens in an effort to jump-start his team. "It was 3-0 and we didnt have a whole lot going on," Eakins said. "Why wait until the last two minutes when youre down three goals?" The Marlies are off until Friday when they visit the Hamilton Bulldogs in the first game of a home-and-home affair. The Monsters next game is at Oklahoma City on Saturday. ' ' '