SECOND PERIOD
The Maple Leafs responded quickly to restore their one-goal lead through Matthew Knies scored only nine seconds after Jake Walman equalized for the Oilers with under nine minutes left in the frame, making it 2-1 through 40 minutes following Matias Maccelli’s deflection that opened the scoring.
Ingram made a blocker save to deny Bobby McMann on a breakaway after Evan Bouchard had his pocket picked at the blueline, but was bailed out beautifully by his netminder in the first minute of the frame to keep it scoreless.
When McDavid was clipped by Brandon Carlo in the neutral zone a few minutes later, the Toronto defenceman wound up paying for it later in the shift after being tracked down by Darnell Nurse and dropping the gloves for a heavy tilt that charged up the split crowd inside Rogers Place on Tuesday.
But the Maple Leafs were the ones who broke the deadlock after Ingram made a fantastic save on Maccelli on a two-on-one near the seven-minute mark before the puck came back up to the blueline and was fired back on goal by Jake McCabe to be deflected by Maccelli in the slot on the second attempt.
Stolarz was solid between the pipes for Toronto with 17 saves in the second period, including a standout glove save on McDavid’s one-timer from the circle before the eight-minute mark of the frame, but the Toronto netminder couldn’t do anything on Walman’s blast a minute later that evened things up.