STOCKHOLM — William Nylander scored at 3:09 of time beyond regulation, and the Toronto Maple Leafs prolonged their profitable streak to 4 with a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Sunday within the closing sport of the NHL’s Global Series in Sweden.
Nylander collected the puck, skated towards the web and fired a shot previous Marc-Andre Fleury for his twelfth aim of the season. He additionally prolonged his franchise-record season-opening level streak to 17 video games.
Nylander had 5 factors (two objectives, three assists) in Toronto’s two video games in Stockholm.
Auston Matthews added a aim and an help for Toronto. He tied Kyle Connor of the Winnipeg Jets for the league lead with 14 objectives.
Matthew Knies scored his fifth of the season, Morgan Rielly added a aim and two assists and Joseph Woll stopped 33 photographs for Toronto, which was enjoying outdoors North America for the primary time in its greater than 100-year historical past.
Mitch Marner had two assists for the Maple Leafs to surpass 400 for his profession.
Mats Zuccarello had a aim and an help and defensemen Jon Merrill and Jake Middleton additionally scored for Minnesota, which misplaced its fifth straight (0-3-2). Fleury stopped 21 photographs.
Trailing 3-1 within the third, the Wild tied it on objectives by Middleton’s and Zuccarello 2:32 aside to power time beyond regulation.
It was the ultimate sport of this sequence at Stockholm’s Avicii Arena. The Ottawa Senators beat the Detroit Red Wings in time beyond regulation on Thursday, the Maple Leafs defeated the Red Wings on Friday and the Wild misplaced to the Senators in a shootout on Saturday within the first four-team occasion the league has held in a single metropolis outdoors of North America. The video games are the primary for the NHL in Sweden for the reason that pandemic.
Merrill put the Wild 1-0 up at 2:37 of the primary with a snap shot from the slot for his first of the season.
Toronto rebounded to take a 2-1 lead on Matthews’ wrist shot on an influence play at 12:43. And Marner discovered Knies with a cross-ice go to one-time a slap shot from the proper circle at 18:23.
Rielly stretched Toronto’s result in 3-1 from the highest of the left circle 4:22 into the third.
UP NEXT
Maple Leafs: Visit the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday.
Wild: Host the Colorado Avalanche on Friday.
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