Tavares, Matthews lead Leafs to 3-2 win over Wings

TORONTO – Auston Matthews scored to necktie the crippled and acceptable up John Tavares’ winning extremity successful the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 triumph against the Detroit Red Wings successful their last NHL pre-season outing connected Saturday.

Matthews recovered Tavares successful the slot and past provided a surface for the power-play goal, 4:58 into the 3rd play astatine Scotiabank Arena.

Matthews returned to enactment aft an upper-body wounded kept him connected the sidelines for 4 consecutive games.

The Maple Leafs (4-1-1) volition unfastened the regular play connected the roadworthy against the Montreal Canadiens connected Wednesday, portion Detroit volition entertain the Pittsburgh Penguins for their archetypal crippled connected Thursday.

Toronto and Detroit indispensable taxable its 23-player rosters by Monday astatine 5 p.m. ET.

The Maple Leafs dressed astir of their opening-night roster with lone regulars Nick Robertson, Calle Jarnkrok and defenceman Jake McCabe missing.

The Red Wings were without galore of their apical players arsenic Dylan Larkin, Patrick Kane and Moritz Seider stayed home.

The visitors did not equine overmuch of an onslaught successful the second 2 periods. But the Maple Leafs did person to termination disconnected a last Red Wings powerfulness play with 8:30 remaining.

Ville Husso was Detroit’s champion player, stopping 30 shots.

Toronto goalie Joseph Woll played the full game. With nary mentation from caller caput manager Craig Berube, Woll played lone 31:45 successful the erstwhile 5 pre-season games.

The incumbent is expected to stock the workload with newcomer Anthony Stolarz, who lone saw 35 minutes of playoff enactment with the Stanley Cup-champion Florida Panthers past spring.

The 26-year-old Woll was astatine his champion during a Red Wings (3-3-2) 54-second five-on-three powerfulness play. After Jonatan Berggren deed the broadside of the nett and Michael Bradsegg-Bygard glanced a changeable disconnected the extracurricular of the post, Woll stoned the second Detroit guardant connected a rebound.

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However, with the archetypal Toronto punishment expired, Andrew Copp scored to springiness Detroit a 2-1 vantage erstwhile William Wallinder’s changeable deflected disconnected Toronto’s Matthew Knies to a wide-open Copp with 2:02 remaining successful the archetypal period.

Copp acceptable up Christian Fischer for a redirect opening goal.

But the Maple Leafs tied the crippled erstwhile Ryan Reaves bumped Detroit defenceman Brogan Rafferty disconnected the puck down the extremity to acceptable up newcomer Steven Lorentz for his archetypal pre-season goal.

The Maple Leafs tied the crippled 2:52 into the 2nd play connected a trademark Matthews one-timer from the broadside connected the powerfulness play.

The Maple Leafs outshot the visitors 15-1 successful the 2nd play and 33-20 overall.

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