{"id":945370,"date":"2026-10-25T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945370\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:56:09","slug":"energized-toronto-maple-leafs-continue-to-roll-with-impressive-win-in-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945370\/","title":{"rendered":"Energized Toronto Maple Leafs continue to roll with impressive win in Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2014 Picking the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> to win in Edmonton has become a safe bet in recent years.<\/p>\n

William Nylander<\/a> had two goals, including the 300th of his career, as the surging Maple Leafs scorched the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> 7-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

No team has had more success in Rogers Place in Edmonton than the Maple Leafs. Since the Oilers moved into their new arena, Toronto has gone an impressive 12-2-1.<\/p>\n

Jack Roslovic, Auston Matthews<\/a>, Troy Stecher<\/a>, Zack MacEwen<\/a> and Vinni Lettieri<\/a> also scored for the Maple Leafs (7-4-2), who have won four straight and are getting a complete team effort.<\/p>\n

Matthews said the atmosphere on the Leafs is incredible at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think the energy in the locker room day in and day out has been great,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the guys, the environment that we\u2019re in, it\u2019s so much fun. It\u2019s competitive, you know. Guys, a lot of joking around, a lot of chirping one another. It\u2019s just been a lot of fun, and I think that emotion, that energy carries over in the games, and it doesn\u2019t matter who scores, everybody\u2019s excited, everybody\u2019s happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just everything\u2019s about the team, and the team\u2019s been first all this time, and that\u2019s what is most important. That\u2019s what I feel like is kind of driving us right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthews and Kirill Marchenko<\/a> (two assists) both extended their season-opening road point streak to five games. Matthews now needs just one point to reach 800 in his career, which will make him the fastest player in franchise history to reach the milestone, in addition to the NHL\u2019s third-quickest American skater to hit the mark.<\/p>\n

When asked about trying to contain Oilers Connor McDavid<\/a>, who had two assists to pad his season-starting points streak to 11 games and 33 points, and Leon Draisaitl<\/a> who recorded his third consecutive two-goal game to give him a league-leading 12 on the season, Matthews said it took \u201call hands on deck.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou recognize the challenges that you\u2019re going up against, and obviously you need everybody to meet that challenge, and you know it\u2019s not pretty at times,\u201d Matthews said. \u201cBut I thought we stuck with it. Penalty kill was great. Defence was great. (Goalie Anthony Stolarz<\/a>) was great, and we were able to put the puck in the net when we needed to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stolarz made 30 stops to earn the win for Toronto.<\/p>\n

Toronto head coach Jim Hiller said everyone in his team\u2019s locker room can hold their heads high.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just Matthews. It\u2019s not just Nylander. It\u2019s not just (John) Tavares. It\u2019s going through the lineup, and that gives you a chance to win every night,\u201d Hiller said. \u201cAnd so as much as I\u2019m happy for those guys, I\u2019m happy for our team that they can feel there\u2019s other guys there to support, and that\u2019s a pretty good feeling right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toronto got goals from a couple unlikely sources as MacEwen scored his first goal since Oct. 14, 2024, and Lettieri hadn\u2019t found the back of the net since April 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

Nylander hitting 300 goals was significant in a number of ways. He became the fourth fastest player in franchise history to the milestone as well as the fourth fastest Swedish player and passed Rick Vaive for sixth in Maple Leafs history. It was also his 45th career multi-goal game, putting him 10th on the Toronto all-time list.<\/p>\n

The Maple Leafs have been superb this season on the penalty kill. They had killed off 40 of 41 opposition power plays and 30 in a row until Edmonton got one late in the game.<\/p>\n

The Oilers (8-2-1) had a three-game winning streak halted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were just better than us. They were more competitive and won more battles,\u201d said Oilers forward Zach Hyman<\/a>. \u201cThey just beat us in every area today.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

Shane Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

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