After frustrating first two periods, Toronto scores three goals in five minutes of third period to secure victory
Toronto Maple Leafs' Auston Matthews celebrates his goal against the Nashville Predators with Mitch Marner during third period action in Toronto on Dec. 4, 2024.On a day when Mitch Marner officially joined Toronto Maple Leafs teammates Auston Matthews and William Nylander in being named to their countries’ respective national teams for February’s Four Nations Faceoff, the three superstar forwards got a small taste of what best-on-best international hockey could feel like.
Matthews scored twice in 118 seconds for the Leafs, turning a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 advantage – both on assists from Marner – while Nylander tacked on a power-play goal just past the five-minute mark – with Marner earning his third assist of the night – as Toronto grabbed a 3-2 victory for its third straight win. For Matthews, the goals were his seventh and eighth of the season, while Nylander grabbed his 16th, with Marner raising his point total to 36 in 25 games.
Despite ‘winning the off-season’ over the summer – courtesy of its splashy signings of forwards Steven Stamkos, Jonathan Marchessault, and blueliner Brady Skjei – Nashville came into Wednesday’s game second-bottom in the 32-team NHL. In spite of this awareness of their opponent’s plight, the Leafs still found themselves a goal down after the first period, with Marchessault scoring something of a freak goal. The Nashville winger dumped the puck in, only to see it carom off the dasher and deflect into the air, coming back over the net and landing in the blue paint.
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