William Nylander scored his second goal of the game at 1:10 of overtime and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the visiting New Jersey Devils 4-3 on Thursday night.
Nylander had a goal, sevens shots on net and one block in Saturday's 7-3 win over Montreal.
Nylander scored the overtime winner on a breakaway chance to earn the Leafs’ third consecutive win against New Jersey.
At the start of the week, the Toronto Maple Leafs entered Week 15 with some challenges ahead, as they looked to get back in the win column. After a tough
The Toronto Maple Leafs scored seven unanswered goals to overcome a three-goal first-period deficit for a 7-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens.
William Nylander inadvertently presented a challenge to the Toronto Maple Leafs: good teams find their way out of three-game losing streaks, and through his own heroics, the Maple Leafs responded with a thrilling 4-3 overtime victory over the New Jersey Devils,
Auston Matthews scored twice, and Joseph Woll made 21 saves for the Maple Leafs (28-16-2), who had lost three in a row in regulation. Marner and Jake McCabe, who returned after missing the past four games with an upper-body injury, each had two assists.
William Nylander and the city of Toronto go hand in hand as it has always been home to him. "This has been home for me," Nylander told the Toronto media recently. "This is the longest I've ever spent in one place in my entire life.
The Tampa Bay Lightning will play the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday. It will be an Atlantic Division showdown as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Lightning-Maple Leafs prediction and pick. The Lightning are 32-31 over the past 63 games against the Maple Leafs,
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The Maple Leafs came back from 3-0 down to flatten the Canadiens 7-3 on Saturday (Jan. 19) in an Orginal Six battle.