The Maple Leafs should know better than to play with fire.

The Calgary Flames started the game red-hot, scoring two goals less than two minutes into the game and held on to beat the struggling Leafs 5-2 on Saturday night in Toronto.

Leafs head coach Ron Wilson endured another night of frustration while watching his team fall behind 2-0 for the ninth time in 18 games this season. It's an astonishing stat that Wilson confessed he has no explanation for.

"I don't have one," he said. "I'm sorry."

Flames captain Jarome Iginla led his team with a pair of goals and Miikka Kiprusoff made 38 saves.

Eric Nystrom, Dustin Boyd and Jay Bouwmeester also had goals for the Flames, who rebounded from a 2-1 shootout loss in Buffalo on Friday night.

But everything about head coach Brent Sutter's body language suggested he was discussing a Calgary loss.

Shoulders slightly slumped, the coach carefully chose his words while summing up the end of the team's successful three game road trip through Eastern Canada. Sure, the Flames had just beaten Toronto, but there were no smiles to be found.

"Yeah, I'm [upset]," Sutter said Saturday. "I wasn't pleased at all tonight."

He'd seen too many problems crop up to properly enjoy the team's latest victory — namely, the Flames had eased up after taking an early 2-0 lead and didn't create enough scoring chances through 40 minutes.

"The positives here tonight is that we got two points, our goaltender played very well, the captain scored two goals and we got a goal on our power play," said Sutter. "Other than that, it's wasn't a great game on our behalf. We were fortunate to get a win."

Francois Beauchemin and Matt Stajan scored for Toronto, which has earned just four points in nine home games (1-6-2) this season.

Iginla and Nystrom scored 16 seconds apart in the first 1:37, goals that starting goalie Jonas Gustavsson probably should have stopped.

Beauchemin soon started Toronto on the comeback trail. Niklas Hagman was screening Kiprusoff when Beauchemin one-timed a point shot into the net at 5:24 of the first period.

But Boyd followed up on his own blocked shot and backhanded the puck past Gustavsson at 9:54.

That prompted Leafs coach Ron Wilson to replace his rookie goalie with Vesa Toskala, who had a good effort during the team's 3-2 loss in Chicago on Friday night.

Toronto carried much of the play for the next 30 minutes, outshooting the Flames 20-4 in the second period.

"They really bounced back," said Kiprusoff. "The second period, we weren't ready for that."

Only one of those shots, a backhanded rebound by Stajan, got behind Kiprusoff.

The Calgary goalie has allowed just five goals in his past five starts and is a big reason the Flames ended their three-game road trip with a victory.

He sprawled his left arm out to take the tying goal off Mikhail Grabovski's stick late in the second period and turned away Hagman from in-close in the third.

Iginla scored his 11th of the season after roaring down the right wing and beating Toskala high at 2:30 of the third period, giving Calgary a 4-2 lead.

Calgary turned it on during the third period and got a goal from Bouwmeester.

With files from The Canadian Press