Mitch Marner scored two times in a second-period rise as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Utah Hockey Club 3-2 Sunday to extend their winning streak to 4.
The triumph, in the only NHL video game on the schedule, can be found in the first-ever conference in between Toronto and Utah.
William Nylander scored his 14th for Toronto, which had actually been off because Wednesday’s 3-0 home win over Vegas. Marner’s seventh and 8th objectives of the season moved him past Syl Apps (201) into 14th put on the Leafs’ all-time objective list.
Logan Cooley and Jack McBain scored for Utah, which was playing its very first back-to-back video games of the season after snapping a three-game losing streak with a 6-1 win Saturday in Pittsburgh. McBain’s tip-in early in the 3rd cut the Leafs’ cause 3-2.
Toronto captain Auston Matthews (upper body injury) missed his 8th video game in a row however there is hope he might return today. The Leafs have actually gone 7-1-0 in his lack.
Toronto was likewise without the hurt Matthew Knies, Max Domi, David Kampf, Max Pacioretty and Calle Jarnkrok and the suspended Ryan Reaves.
Alex Nylander, signed today from the AHL Marlies, made his Leafs launching and saw time on the power play with older sibling William in the very first duration. The Nylanders end up being the 13th set of bros to bet the franchise and the 5th set to play together for the Leafs.
Takeaways
The traffic in Toronto draws, particularly the day of the Santa Claus parade. The Nylander bros took the train to the rink and Utah gamers likewise went to Plan B, leaving their bus to stroll the last couple of blocks to the Scotiabank Arena.
Secret Moment
Down 1-0 after a slow opening duration, Toronto turned it up in the 2nd with 3 objectives in 5 minutes 35 seconds. The Leafs outshot Utah 16-6 in the duration.
Secret Stat
Marner has 6 objectives and 8 helps in the 8 video games that Matthews has actually been out. He now has multi-point video games in 7 of his last 8 getaways, upping his season overall to 11. Just Minnesota’s Kirill Kaprizov has more multi-point video games, with 12.
Up next
Toronto heads to Florida to deal with the Panthers on Wednesday and Tampa Bay on Saturday. Utah finishes up its four-game journey Wednesday in Montreal.
