Former\u00a0Canucks forwards Zack MacEwen and Teddy Blueger also scored for the Maple Leafs (8-6-2), who were coming off consecutive road losses. Anthony Stolarz made 26 saves.<\/p>\n
Brock Boeser and Max Sasson scored, and Leevi Merilainen made 24 saves for the Canucks (3-12-1), who are 1-11-1 in their past 13 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nylander put Toronto ahead 1-0 on a breakaway at 1:23 of the first period after defenseman Jamie Oleksiak got caught flat-footed after reaching to break up a Toronto breakout pass. Nylander cut across the crease on his forehand before chipping a backhand back up over Merilainen\u2019s glove the other way.<\/p>\n
Boeser tied it 1-1 on a power play breakaway at 10:30, taking a perfect pass from Filip Hronek inside his own zone and skating in alone from the Toronto blue line before getting Stolarz to commit on a fake shot and pulling the puck around the sprawled goalie before lifting it into the open net.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Maple Leafs had a great chance to retake the lead on consecutive power plays that included 1:08 of 5-on-3, but Merilainen robbed Gavin McKennna on a backdoor chance early in the first power play and made saves off hard Matthews and Darren Raddyish shots to kill the two-man advantage.<\/p>\n
Matthews put Toronto ahead 2-1 at 3:47 of the second period on a pretty passing play with Raddyish. Matthews passed from the bottom of the left face-off circle up to Raddyish, who had his stick raised for a one-timer just above the dot, but instead passed back down to Matthews for a sweeping one-touch shot along the ice and under the pads of Merilainen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacEwen made it 3-1 at 12:34, when his point shot bounced out of Merilainen\u2019s glove, off the back of defenseman Luke Schenn and trickled in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sasson pulled the Canucks to 3-2 at 9:27 by chipping a rebound over the right pad of Stolarz in tight after a Brendan Gallagher shot through traffic.<\/p>\n
Blueger, who also had an assist, scored into an empty net on a 2-on-1 pass from Nylander at 18:24 for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former\u00a0Canucks forwards Zack MacEwen and Teddy Blueger also scored for the Maple Leafs (8-6-2), who were coming off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-948255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}