Nylander powers Maple Leafs over Lightning 5-2

TORONTO – William Nylander had 2 goals and an assistance arsenic the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 connected Monday night.

Auston Matthews, Max Pacioretty and Matthew Knies besides scored for Toronto (4-2-0). Anthony Stolarz made 32 saves. Mitch Marner had 2 assists.

Nick Paul and Brayden Point replied for Tampa (3-2-0). Andrei Vasilevskiy allowed 4 goals connected 14 shots earlier getting the hook midway done the 2nd period. Jonas Johansson made 14 saves successful relief. Victor Hedman had 2 assists.

Nylander opened the scoring aboriginal successful the archetypal and enactment Toronto up 3-1 midway done the second.

Pacioretty stretched the pb to 4-1 from good retired to extremity Vasilevskiy’s nighttime earlier Knies added different connected Johansson for a four-goal vantage done 40 minutes.

The Leafs bushed the Lightning successful the archetypal circular of the 2023 playoffs for the Original Six franchise’s lone bid triumph successful the NHL’s wage headdress era.

TAKEAWAYS

Toronto’s 27th-ranked powerfulness play connected connected its 2nd accidental erstwhile Matthews was quickest to a escaped puck successful the crease aft Vasilevskiy couldn’t compression Marner’s archetypal shot.

Tampa winger Nikita Kucherov, who picked up an assist, was held successful cheque aft entering with an NHL-leading 7 goals successful 4 games.

KEY MOMENT

The Lightning had a 5-on-3 powerfulness play down 4-1 successful the 2nd for a afloat 2 minutes erstwhile Max Domi and Bobby McMann were penalized connected the aforesaid sequence, but Stolarz held the fort, including a desperation halt connected the extremity enactment disconnected a Jake Guentzel chance.

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KEY STAT

Toronto scored astatine slightest 5 goals successful a crippled for the 22nd clip dating backmost to past season. Only the Colorado Avalanche (31), Detroit Red Wings (25), Lightning (24) and Dallas Stars (23) person much five-goal contention implicit the aforesaid span.

UP NEXT

Maple Leafs: Visit the Columbus Blue Jackets connected Tuesday.

Lightning: Visit the New Jersey Devils arsenic portion of the NHL’s jam-packed 16-game slate.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 21, 2024.

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