Marner scores twice as Maple Leafs defeat Utah

TORONTO – Mitch Marner scored doubly successful a second-period surge arsenic the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Utah Hockey Club 3-2 Sunday to widen their winning streak to four.

The victory, successful the lone NHL crippled connected the schedule, came successful the first-ever gathering betwixt Toronto and Utah.

William Nylander scored his 14th for Toronto, which had been disconnected since Wednesday’s 3-0 location triumph implicit Vegas. Marner’s seventh and eighth goals of the play moved him past Syl Apps (201) into 14th spot connected the Leafs’ all-time extremity list.

Logan Cooley and Jack McBain scored for Utah, which was playing its archetypal back-to-back games of the play aft snapping a three-game losing streak with a 6-1 triumph Saturday successful Pittsburgh. McBain’s tip-in aboriginal successful the 3rd chopped the Leafs’ pb to 3-2.

Toronto skipper Auston Matthews (upper assemblage injury) missed his eighth crippled successful a enactment but determination is anticipation helium whitethorn instrumentality this week. The Leafs person gone 7-1-0 successful his absence.

Toronto was besides without the injured Matthew Knies, Max Domi, David Kampf, Max Pacioretty and Calle Jarnkrok and the suspended Ryan Reaves.

Alex Nylander, signed this week from the AHL Marlies, made his Leafs debut and saw clip connected the powerfulness play with older member William successful the archetypal period. The Nylanders go the 13th acceptable of brothers to play for the franchise and the 5th acceptable to play unneurotic for the Leafs.

Takeaways

The postulation successful Toronto sucks, particularly the time of the Santa Claus parade. The Nylander brothers took the subway to the rink and Utah players besides went to Plan B, leaving their autobus to locomotion the last fewer blocks to the Scotiabank Arena.

Key Moment

Down 1-0 aft a sluggish opening period, Toronto turned it up successful the 2nd with 3 goals successful 5 minutes 35 seconds. The Leafs outshot Utah 16-6 successful the period.

Key Stat

Marner has six goals and 8 assists successful the 8 games that Matthews has been out. He present has multi-point games successful 7 of his past 8 outings, upping his play full to 11. Only Minnesota’s Kirill Kaprizov has much multi-point games, with 12.

Up next

Toronto heads to Florida to look the Panthers connected Wednesday and Tampa Bay connected Saturday. Utah wraps up its four-game roadworthy travel Wednesday successful Montreal.

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This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 24, 2024