Nylander nets hat trick as Leafs douse Flames 6-3

CALGARY – Calgary-born William Nylander notched his 2nd vocation chapeau instrumentality connected Tuesday arsenic the Toronto Maple Leafs completed a expanse of Alberta with a 6-3 triumph implicit the Calgary Flames.

With 9 goals successful his past 8 games Nylander has reached the 33-goal mark, 2nd successful the NHL down Leon Draisaitl of the Edmonton Oilers, who has 37.

It was Nylander’s archetypal chapeau instrumentality successful 8 years to the day.

John Tavares, Bobby McMann and Matthew Knies besides scored for Toronto (32-19-2), which climbs to wrong 1 constituent of the Atlantic Division-leading Florida Panthers. The Leafs person 2 games successful hand. Auston Matthews had 3 assists.

Matt Coronato, Yegor Sharangovich, and Joel Farabee, with his archetypal arsenic a Flame, scored for Calgary (26-20-7). The Flames opened the nighttime 2 points up connected the Vancouver Canucks for the 2nd wild-card playoff berth successful the Western Conference.

At the other end, rookie Dustin Wolf had 24 stops. He falls to 19-10-2.

The crippled got disconnected to an unusual commencement with some teams scoring what they thought was the game-opening goal, lone for some to beryllium taken disconnected the scoreboard.

At 6:30 of the archetypal period, Tavares batted a rebound retired of the aerial and past Wolf, but upon review, it was waved disconnected for being a high-stick.

Just 1:39 later, it was Farabee jamming successful a escaped puck successful the crease. But Toronto challenged the telephone and upon review, the extremity was overturned for goaltender interference.

TAKEAWAYS

Maple Leafs: Forward Mitch Marner (lower-body injury), 4th successful the NHL successful scoring, missed his archetypal crippled of the season. His lack did not wounded Toronto’s powerfulness play. After going 2-for-2 with the other antheral successful Edmonton, the visitors scored connected their archetypal 2 chances against the Flames connected the mode to finishing 2-for-4. At 5 connected five, Max Domi was inserted into Marner’s accustomed spot connected the apical enactment alongside Knies and Matthews, who appeared successful his 600th NHL game.

Flames: The goals by Coronato and Sharangovich came connected extended two-man advantages arsenic Calgary’s powerfulness play remained reddish hot. The Flames finished 2-for-5 with the other antheral to amended to 9-for-24 implicit the past 7 games.

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KEY MOMENT

Tied 2-2 successful the second, Toronto took the pb for bully astatine 12:28 erstwhile McMann, breaking successful connected a 2-on-1 with Steven Lorentz, elected to support the puck and helium ripped a changeable past Wolf precocious connected his blocker broadside for his 16th goal. The Leafs opened a two-goal cushion six minutes aboriginal connected different odd-man rush, this clip a 3-on-1, with Nylander beating Wolf connected his mitt side.

KEY STAT

It’s been feast oregon famine of precocious for the Leafs offensively. In 5 of their past 10 games, they’ve been held to 1 oregon zero goals. In the different five, they’ve scored 4 oregon more.

UP NEXT

Maple Leafs: Visit the Seattle Kraken connected Thursday.

Flames: Host the Colorado Avalanche connected Thursday.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Feb. 4, 2025.