DETROIT – What performance boost do teams often experience when a new coach steps behind the bench in the middle of the season? It wasn’t there for the Detroit Red Wings on Friday. Not by a long shot.

The Toronto Maple Leafs scored three goals in the first period and led almost from start to finish in a 5-2 win at Little Caesars Arena, spoiling Todd McLellan’s debut.

The Red Wings (13-18-4) have lost four straight in the regular season and have fallen to last place with the Buffalo Sabers in the Eastern Conference.

Mitch Marner became the second player in as many games to score a hat trick against Detroit (the Blues’ Dylan Holloway did it on Monday).

The Red Wings fired coach Derek Lalonde on Thursday, but they continue to have the same problems. They allowed four or more goals in five straight games and on 7-of-8 play, totaling 33 goals in that span.

They trailed 0-5 after Lucas Raymond (8:17) and Simon Edvinsson (12:08) scored in the third period. Raymond’s goal, his 14th, ended a scoring drought that stretched back to the first period Saturday in Montreal at 161-36.

The Leafs, playing without Auston Matthews, improved to 22-12-2.

The Red Wings host Washington on Sunday (5 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network).

At 16:23 of the second period, Marner completed his third career hat trick to make the score 4-0. He deflected a shot from William Nylander. Marner scored 18 goals and 35 points in 27 games against Detroit.

An icing on the court with less than eight seconds left proved costly as Nicholas Robertson scored with 1.3 seconds left in the game.

Cam Talbot allowed five goals on 21 shots and was replaced by Alex Lyon early in the third period.

The Red Wings played more energetically and competitively in the first third than in the previous two games. A few mishaps and a four-minute penalty cost them.

The Leafs struck quickly as David Kampf scored at 2:29. Ben Chiarot’s pass to Jeff Petry behind the net was intercepted by Steven Lorentz, who delivered the puck to the middle of Kampf near the goal.

Marner made the final score 2-0 at 8:16 with the first of his two one-time goals. John Tavares set him up with a brilliant backhand pass behind the legs.

After Lucas Raymond received a double minor penalty for Jake McCabe’s high stick, Marner converted on the power play with 32 seconds left.