Stolarz, Leafs blank Bruins minus injured Matthews

TORONTO – Anthony Stolarz made 29 saves for his archetypal shutout of the play successful the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 4-0 triumph implicit the Boston Bruins connected Tuesday.

Morgan Rielly had a extremity and 2 assists arsenic Toronto (7-5-2) connected 3 times connected the powerfulness play. William Nylander and Matthew Knies added a extremity and an assistance each. Mitch Marner had 2 assists of his own. Steven Lorentz rounded retired the scoring into the bare net.

The Leafs played without skipper Auston Matthews, who is listed arsenic day-to-day with an upper-body injury.

Jeremy Swayman made 23 stops for Boston (6-7-1), which was coming disconnected consecutive play shutouts of the Philadelphia Flyers and Seattle Kraken.

Toronto’s porous 31st-ranked powerfulness play scored for the 2nd clip successful arsenic galore games astatine 8:44 of the 2nd play erstwhile Rielly fired done a surface earlier Nylander banked successful his team-leading 10th extremity of the play connected different antheral vantage 1:14 aboriginal for a 2-0 lead.

The Bruins entered the crippled 8-0-0 successful the regular play against their Atlantic Division rival dating backmost to Jan. 14, 2023.

TAKEAWAYS

Toronto: The NHL’s second-worst powerfulness play entered 4-for-40 successful 2024-25, but connected 3 times without its champion player.

Boston: After blanking the Flyers (3-0) and the Kraken (2-0), the Bruins’ shutout streak was snapped astatine 156 minutes 47 seconds erstwhile Rielly scored his 4th of the campaign.

KEY MOMENT

With the people tied 0-0 successful the second, Swayman initially tried to frost the puck earlier changing his mind. That forced Boston defenceman Nikita Zadorov into an interference penalty, which successful crook led to Toronto’s archetypal goal.

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KEY STAT

The Leafs improved to 36-19-2 without Matthews — the No. 1 prime astatine the 2016 NHL draught — successful the regular play all-time.

UP NEXT

Bruins: Open a two-game homestand Thursday against the Calgary Flames.

Maple Leafs: Play the 2nd of 4 consecutive astatine Scotiabank Arena connected Friday against the Detroit Red Wings.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 5, 2024.

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