![]() … Barkov has a nine-game point streak (two goals, 12 assists) and has 10 assists in a seven-game assist streak. … Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly (rest) did not play. … Nylander (36 goals, 44 assists) has reached 80 points for the second straight season. … Marner extended his point streak to eight games (six goals, nine assists). NOTES: Matthews has six goals in the past eight games. Murray stopped the shot sprawling with his glove, but video review determined the puck had crossed the goal line. His initial shot from behind the goal line was stopped by Murray, but Tkachuk swatted at the rebound through the legs of Jake McCabe along the goal line. Tkachuk tied it 1-1 at 14:25 on a power play. The Maple Leafs took a 1-0 lead at 5:05 of the first period when Matthews took a pass from Marner and shot from above the left face-off circle. " got crushed the other night by the Islanders (7-2 loss on Tuesday), they wanted to turn the page, and they turned it, and we didn't. Just a tough one at a tough time of year. They were moving around a lot, and we didn't do a good enough job of getting in front of Murray, he basically saw everything tonight. " zone, we didn't do a great job of shutting plays down, we kind of let them run all over the place and create their offense. "The hardest part of it was we got into some penalty trouble and we had basically all the momentum," Tkachuk said. Marner scored short-handed into an empty net at 15:49 for the 6-2 final. It was an important time in the game."Īlexander Kerfoot made it 5-2 at 14:23 of the third period when Tavares centered a pass into the slot and Kerfoot shot between Bobrovsky's pads. It didn't go in the way we drew it up but it's nice for the guys to come through. "It's been a long wait, a long wait for one, that's for sure," Keefe said. Michael Bunting gave the Maple Leafs a 4-2 lead at 18:21 when he shot from the slot on a 5-on-3 man-advantage, the first such power play they've had this season. Nick Cousins cut it to 3-2 at 11:43 when he took a pass from Aleksander Barkov in the slot and backhanded a shot over Murray's blocker in the slot. Video: Matthews fires from behind the circle It was just an unbelievable screen by him, those are just the little things he does night in, night out that maybe sometimes go unnoticed." "It was a bit of a muffin I threw at the net, but the goalie didn't see it and I was just able to pick a spot and get it there. "It was just a great screen, honestly," Matthews said. Matthews made it 3-1 at 2:57 when he took a pass from Mark Giordano while behind the net, skated out in front and shot past Bobrovsky's glove while Calle Jarnkrok provided a screen. "It's obviously nice to score, I thought my game has been getting better as of the past two games, so it's just moving in the right direction," Nylander said. It was his 80th point of the season and ended a four-game goal and point drought. William Nylander put Toronto up 2-1 at 1:20 of the second period when he got to a loose puck at the top of the crease and shot past Bobrovsky's glove. Hopefully we'll get some help before that, but it's definitely not the end of the world. "We just have to get a win ," Tkachuk said. The Penguins lost 3-2 at the Dallas Stars on Thursday.įlorida has lost two in a row after a seven-game point streak (6-0-1). Matthew Tkachuk extended his goal streak to an NHL career-high six games, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 saves for the Panthers (36-29-7), who remain one point behind the Pittsburgh Penguins for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference. When they did break free and looked dangerous, he made it look easy. That's a very dynamic offensive team that we played against and really limited their opportunities. "Our guys did a really good job in front of him. "I thought looked great," Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said. ![]() The Lightning lost 7-2 at the Ottawa Senators on Thursday. Mitchell Marner scored for the fourth straight game, John Tavares had three assists, and Murray made 33 saves for the Maple Leafs (43-19-9), who are 3-1-1 in their past five games and moved five points ahead of the Tampa Bay Lightning for second in the Atlantic Division with two games in hand. … I think just a good game all around, especially with how desperate these guys came out, and just to play through the pressure they bring." "We were able to capitalize on some chances there. "I thought we had a good first period, weathered the storm at times when they really got rolling, and Murray came up with some big saves, obviously," Matthews said. ![]()
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