Tavares took a lead pass from Matthew Knies and shot over Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen\u2019s blocker from the slot on a breakaway for the game-winning goal.<\/p>\n
Tavares also had an assist, Nicholas Robertson, Mattias Maccelli and Dakota Joshua scored and Knies had two assists for the Maple Leafs (4-4-1), who were 0-2-1 in their previous three games. Cayden Primeau made 23 saves<\/p>\n
Toronto was without forward William Nylander because of an injury sustained on Friday in a 5-3 loss to the Sabres. He had played in 267 consecutive games, last missing a game on April 4, 2022.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson scored twice for the Sabres (4-4-1), who had won three in a row. Luukkonen made 18 saves in his season debut after missing the first eight games of the season with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
Thompson put the Sabres up 3-2 at 7:06 of the third period on the power play. He got to a loose puck in the slot after Rasmus Dahlin\u2019s shot from the blue line was blocked by Jake McCabe, spun and shot between Primeau\u2019s pads.<\/p>\n
Joshua scored for the second straight game, tying it 3-3 at 13:10 when he cut across the slot and shot past Luukkonen\u2019s glove from the left face-off dot.<\/p>\n
The Sabres went up 1-0 at 13:40 of the first period when Thompson took a cross-ice pass from Jiri Kulich and shot over Primeau\u2019s right shoulder from the left face-off dot.<\/p>\n
Robertson tied it 1-1 at 18:33 when he took a pass from Easton Cowan, who was behind the net and shot blocker side from the slot.<\/p>\n
Maccelli put the Maple Leafs up 2-1 at 1:59 of the second period when he redirected a pass from Tavares past Luukkonen\u2019s outstretched left pad at the side of the goal crease.<\/p>\n
Kulich thought he tied it at 6:59 but the goal was overturned after the officials determined Zach Benson interfered with Primeau in the goal crease.<\/p>\n
Bowen Byram did tie it 2-2 at 14:23 when he shot from the blue line through traffic in front of Primeau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tavares took a lead pass from Matthew Knies and shot over Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen\u2019s blocker from the slot on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-240243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}