All this talk about making the nets bigger in hockey? Hogwash.

There was no shortage of goals as the AHL's Toronto Marlies won 9-8 in overtime over the St. John's Icecaps on Saturday.

That's right, nine to eight.

Akin to a baseball game, one can only assume both squads miss watching the Toronto Blue Jays and were trying to do their best impersonation of Canada's baseball team, which was the top scoring MLB squad in 2015.

The game went down as the second-highest scoring AHL game since 1998, and tied a record for the highest-scoring game that was tied after regulation.

Top Leafs prospect William Nylander scored the game-winning goal 1:15 into overtime and added three assists, while Josh Leivo had four points of his own (two goals and two assists).

William Nylander is now tied for first in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AHL?src=hash">#AHL</a> scoring with 19 points over 14 games played. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarliesLive?src=hash">#MarliesLive</a> —@TorontoMarlies

The Marlies, believe it or not, only had four goals entering the third period. They trailed 8-4 before they returned the favour and went on an assault against the Icecaps goaltending. T.J. Brennan, Zach Hyman, Sam Carrick and Nikita Soshnikov scored third period goals to stretch the barn burner into overtime before the colloquially known "snizzbone" scored the game-winner.

St. John's had three two-goal scorers in Michael McCarron, Charles Hudon and Morgan Ellis.

Both starting goalies gave up eight goals, but fortunately for them, neither was credited with the loss.

The Marlies Garret Sparks made three saves in relief and got the win after Antoine Bibeau allowed eight goals on 34 shots.

Eddie Pasquale took the hard-luck loss for the Icecaps, allowing one goal on eight shots after starter Zachary Fucale let up eight goals on 31 shots.

Poor Eddie.