TORONTO (AP) — Auston Matthews scored twice early within the second interval, Ilya Samosonov made 37 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-1 on Thursday night time.
“Sammy was dialed in,” Matthews stated. “It’s a giant win for us, however the sport might have undoubtedly been so much nearer had it not been for him.”
Mitch Marner and Mark Giordano, into the empty internet, additionally scored for Toronto, and Michael Bunting added two assists.
Kyle Connor scored for Winnipeg, and Connor Hellebuyck stopped 23 photographs.
The Jets, who entered because the Western Convention’s No. 1 seed, carried a lot of the play within the first interval — outshooting Toronto 16-6 in a interval the place Samsonov needed to be on his toes — however the Maple Leafs had the very best probability when Matthews pinged a shot off Hellebuyck’s crossbar on a breakaway.
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Final season’s 60-goal man ultimately discovered the vary eight seconds into the center interval when he stepped round Mark Scheifele and beat Hellebuyck five-hole off the frenzy.
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The Maple Leafs made it 2-Zero lower than 4 minutes later when Winnipeg acquired caught puck-watching and Bunting discovered Matthews in entrance to tear his 24th.
“In all probability the sport that’s seemed closest to him final 12 months when it comes to being harmful, when it comes to the way in which the puck went within the internet,” Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe stated about Matthews. “He might have had 4 or 5 tonight.”
Coming off a 4-1 loss in Montreal on Tuesday night time, the Jets went to the ability play with lower than seven minutes left within the second, however Marner fired his 17th previous Hellebuyck on a short-handed 2-on-1 because the winger constructed on his franchise document by registering no less than some extent in 20 straight house video games.
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“Performed very well,” Jets coach Rick Bowness stated. “The errors we made with their finest gamers on the ice have been obvious. To me, we gave them the primary three objectives. You give these guys — Matthews and Marner — these possibilities, they’re going to attain.”
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Jets: At Ottawa on Saturday night time.
Maple Leafs: At Montreal on Saturday night time.
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