Leafs rally from three down to whip Canadiens 7-3

MONTREAL – The Toronto Maple Leafs scored 7 unanswered goals to flooded a 3-0 first-period shortage and past skated to a 7-3 triumph implicit the Montreal Canadiens connected Saturday night.

Bobby McMann, Nicholas Robertson, William Nylander, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Steven Lorentz, Auston Matthews and David Kampf recovered the backmost of the nett for Toronto (22-18-4).

Kirby Dach, Patrik Laine, and Josh Anderson scored for Montreal (28-16-2).

Montreal dominated the opening play of the crippled and struck archetypal connected a Kirby Dach extremity astatine 5:08. Patrik Laine, connected the powerfulness play, and Josh Anderson scored conscionable 9 seconds apart, giving Montreal a 3-0 pb heading into the archetypal intermission.

Toronto replied successful the 2nd play with goals from Bobby McMann and Nicholas Robertson. Nylander scored 24 seconds into the 3rd play connected a breakaway and the epic comeback was underway.

Ekman-Larsson, connected the powerfulness play, scored astatine 4:31, Matthews scored a short-handed extremity astatine 7:58, Lorentz scored astatine 14:45, and Kampf added an empty-net, short-handed extremity astatine 18:26.

TAKEAWAYS

Canadiens: Missed opportunities again made Montreal’s beingness much hard than it needed to be. Shots ringing disconnected the post, missing unfastened chances, and fantabulous saves from Toronto netminder Joseph Woll prevented them from putting the crippled to furniture successful the 2nd period.

Maple Leafs: When it rains it pours. Despite an abysmal archetypal period, Toronto was capable to regroup and implicit their comeback successful the blink of an eye, scoring 5 earlier Montreal had the accidental to regroup.

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KEY MOMENT

Halfway done the 2nd period, Montreal’s Christian Dvorak’s sent a changeable that rang disconnected the close station and promptly turned into a two-on-one unreserved that allowed McMann to people 8 seconds later, sparking the Toronto comeback.

KEY STAT

Toronto’s 5 goals successful the 2nd and 3rd periods were conscionable 18 minutes apart.

UP NEXT

Maple Leafs: Host the Tampa Bay Lightning connected Monday.

Canadiens: Host the New York Rangers connected Sunday.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Jan. 18, 2025.