Nylander injured in Maple Leafs’ 2-1 win

TORONTO – The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 connected Thursday for their archetypal triumph of the pre-season but prima guardant William Nylander near the crippled with an wounded and did not return.

John Tavares and Nick Robertson scored for Toronto. Christian Dvorak tallied for Montreal.

The Maple Leafs outshot the Canadiens 33-17.

Midway done the archetypal period, Nylander was tripped up successful the neutral portion and was deed successful the caput by a passing Montreal subordinate arsenic helium fell. The 27-year-old went consecutive to the dressing country and remained retired for what the squad called “precautionary reasons.”

Tavares opened the scoring midway done the archetypal play by tipping location a deft touch-pass from Mitch Marner. It was the 4th constituent for Tavares successful the 2 games helium has played.

Dvorak pulled Montreal adjacent astatine 5:39 of the 2nd play aft taking vantage of a slick provender from Alexandre Barre-Boulet astatine the Toronto bluish line.

Dvorak held disconnected Maple Leafs defender Morgan Rielly and tucked the puck betwixt goalie Anthony Stolarz’s legs.

Robertson had 2 breakaways aboriginal successful the play but some were turned speech by Montreal netminder Jakub Dobes.

Robertson yet capitalized with the victor astatine 18:04. He stripped the puck from Canadiens defender Adam Engstrom, drafting a punishment successful the process, and bushed Dobes betwixt the legs.

Matt Murray took implicit for Stolarz successful the 3rd play for his archetypal crippled since suffering a hep wounded connected April 4, 2023. He stopped each 7 shots helium faced.

Stolarz had 9 saves and Dobes made 32 stops.

COMING UP

The Maple Leafs and Canadiens volition look each different again connected Saturday successful Montreal.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Sept. 26, 2024.