TORONTO – Auston Matthews scored to tie the sport and arrange John Tavares’ successful objective within the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 win in opposition to the Detroit Purple Wings of their ultimate NHL pre-season outing on Saturday.
Matthews discovered Tavares within the slot after which offered a display for the power-play objective, 4:58 into the third interval at Scotiabank Enviornment.
Matthews returned to motion after an upper-body harm stored him on the sidelines for 4 straight video games.
The Maple Leafs (4-1-1) will open the common season on the highway in opposition to the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday, whereas Detroit will entertain the Pittsburgh Penguins for his or her first recreation on Thursday.
Toronto and Detroit should submit its 23-player rosters by Monday at 5 p.m. ET.
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The Maple Leafs dressed most of their opening-night roster with solely regulars Nick Robertson, Calle Jarnkrok and defenceman Jake McCabe lacking.
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The Purple Wings had been with out a lot of their prime gamers as Dylan Larkin, Patrick Kane and Moritz Seider stayed house.
The guests didn’t mount a lot of an assault within the latter two durations. However the Maple Leafs did should kill off a ultimate Purple Wings energy play with 8:30 remaining.
Ville Husso was Detroit’s greatest participant, stopping 30 photographs.
Toronto goalie Joseph Woll performed the whole recreation. With no rationalization from new head coach Craig Berube, Woll performed solely 31:45 within the earlier 5 pre-season video games.
The incumbent is anticipated to share the workload with newcomer Anthony Stolarz, who solely noticed 35 minutes of playoff motion with the Stanley Cup-champion Florida Panthers final spring.
The 26-year-old Woll was at his greatest throughout a Purple Wings (3-3-2) 54-second five-on-three energy play. After Jonatan Berggren hit the aspect of the online and Michael Bradsegg-Bygard glanced a shot off the surface of the put up, Woll stoned the latter Detroit ahead on a rebound.
Nonetheless, with the primary Toronto penalty expired, Andrew Copp scored to present Detroit a 2-1 benefit when William Wallinder’s shot deflected off Toronto’s Matthew Knies to a wide-open Copp with 2:02 remaining within the first interval.
Copp arrange Christian Fischer for a redirect opening objective.
However the Maple Leafs tied the sport when Ryan Reaves bumped Detroit defenceman Brogan Rafferty off the puck behind the objective to arrange newcomer Steven Lorentz for his first pre-season objective.
The Maple Leafs tied the sport 2:52 into the second interval on a trademark Matthews one-timer from the aspect on the ability play.
The Maple Leafs outshot the guests 15-1 within the second interval and 33-20 total.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Oct. 5, 2024.
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