Nylander scores twice, Leafs down Kraken

TORONTO – William Nylander scored doubly and Joseph Woll made 24 saves arsenic the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Seattle Kraken 4-1 connected Thursday.

Matthews Knies and Auston Matthews, with a bank-shot bare netter to spell on with an assist, had the different goals for Toronto (6-4-1). John Tavares added 2 assists.

Eeli Tolvanen replied for Seattle (5-5-1). Joey Daccord stopped 25 shots.

Knies opened the scoring precocious successful the archetypal play earlier Nylander potted 2 successful the 2nd aft mentioning astatine a greeting media availability helium was keen for much crystal clip from caput manager Craig Berube.

Tolvanen spoiled Woll’s bid for his 2nd vocation shutout with 3:28 near successful regularisation and Daccord connected the seat for an other attacker earlier Matthews sealed it into the bare net.

Seattle was coming disconnected Tuesday’s 8-2 drubbing of the Montreal Canadiens.

Takeaways

Leafs: Knies scored successful a 3rd consecutive crippled to springiness him six goals connected the season. Nylander leads the Leafs with eight.

Kraken: Already minus Vince Dunn (upper-body injury), the visitors were down different defenceman with Brandon Montour backmost successful Seattle for the commencement of his 2nd child.

Key moment

The Kraken iced the puck with little than 10 seconds to spell successful the archetypal with the people tied 0-0. Matthews bullied his mode to a triumph connected the ensuing faceoff earlier feeding Mitch Marner, who successful crook recovered Knies to implicit the beauteous passing play.

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Key stat

Tavares became the 5th Leafs subordinate property 34 oregon older successful the past 50 years with 10 oregon much points done his archetypal 10 games of a play with his assistance connected Nylander’s archetypal goal.

Up next

Toronto opens a two-game roadworthy travel Saturday successful St. Louis, portion Seattle plays the 2nd of 5 consecutive distant from location the aforesaid nighttime successful Ottawa.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 31, 2024.

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