The Toronto Maple Leafs continued their red hot stretch going undefeated this week. Mitch Marners point streak will last until at least Tuesday after he stretched it to 22 games Saturday night. The Leafs are now 18-5-6 for the season and have 42 points, just 1 behind the division leading Boston Bruins. Here are the individual game recaps:
12/6:
TOR 4 DAL 0
The Leafs end another streak, shutting out the Dallas Stars to end Jason Robertsons 18 game point streak. Murray made 44 saves to seal the shutout. Toronto’s offence came from goals by John Tavares (13), Auston Matthews (13), Rasmus Sandin (2) and Alexander Kerfoot (2).
12/8:
LAK 0 TOR 5
Toronto posts their second straight shutout, this time with 29 saves from Ilya Samsonov. Pierre Engvall (4), David Kampf (4), William Nylander (15), Mitch Marner (11) and Auston Matthews (14) provided the offence for Toronto in this one.
12/10:
CGY 4 TOR 5 F/OT
The Maple Leafs finally win a game in overtime! William Nylander would record 5 points in this game (2G, 3A), while Auston Matthews (15), Michael Bunting (5) would record the rest of Toronto’s offence in regulation. Unlike the previous two games, Calgary would match each goal in regulation. Noah Hanifin (2&3), Nazem Kadri (11) and Trevor Lewis (5) would record Calgarys goals in regulation. None other than Mitch Marner (12) would score the game winning goal just 43 seconds into OT.
The Leafs don’t play again until Tuesday where they will face the team at the bottom of the league, the Anaheim Ducks. The game is in Toronto and is scheduled to start at 7:00PM ET.
-Austin Sturge