TORONTO-- Auston Matthews scored a hat trick, including his 300th NHL objective, helping the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 6-5 shootout win versus the Montreal Canadiens at Scotiabank Field on Wednesday. "It was a little bit of a roller coaster, " Matthews said. "I believe it's obviously nice to obtain the win and there's a great deal of things we can certainly tidy up
Alex Galchenyuk Jersey, just caring for the puck, some turnover stuff, little understanding kind of stuff we can certainly be better at. It's easy to claim it's the first game, but it's those behaviors you attempt to construct beforehand in camp that you just wish to tidy up early."William Nylander had an objective and an assist, John Tavares had three assists, and Ilya Samsonov made 19 conserves for the Maple Leafs in the season opener for both groups. Mitchell Marner racked up the only goal in the shootout.Ehen asked what he would certainly extract from the game, Toronto trainer Sheldon Keefe said, "2 points, that has to do with it."You provide for certain. To make sure that's my takeaway. The game offered almost whatever you can think of in a game. It's all over the area, which you don't like to see."Alex Newhook racked up two times in his Canadiens debut, and Jake Allen made 37 conserves."We were definitely emotionally challenged, and to me, that's a huge part of this league, " Montreal coach Martin St. Louis stated. "Psychologically challenged in the 2nd, emotionally challenged at the end of the third, yet you learn for it. There's nothing you can do. It's done, allow's go." MTLTOR: Matthews scores his initial three goals of period The Maple Leafs sufficed to 5-4 at 15:28 of the third period when Matthews took a pass from Tavares and shot to the short side from the bottom of the appropriate skirmish circle.With Samsonov pulled for the additional enemy, Matthews then connected it 5-5 at 18:53 when he obtained a pass from Nylander and fired past an outstretched Allen for goal No. 302. Newhook, who was acquired from the Colorado Avalanche in a profession June 27, had placed the Canadiens up 4-3 at 5:47 of the third when he dispersed an Arber Xhekaj shot in the slot for his second goal.Jesse Ylonen made it 5-3 at 11:55, backhanding a shot past Samsonov's blocker after a pass from Rafael Harvey-Pinard, that obstructed a clearing effort from Timothy Liljegren."We shed some life without a doubt, it was difficult, " Keefe stated. ". It was definitely a difficult one, especially the nature of the method several of the objectives were happening. You just seem like it's not your night. I do not know the number of times we dropped or whiffed on the puck."Matthews' power-play goal linked it 2-2 at 14:51 of the 2nd period. Marner's shot ricocheted off Tavares before the internet and involved Matthews, who fired from the bottom of the ideal circle. The objective made him the fastest United States-born player to reach 300 objectives
Nathan Legare Jersey, passing Pat LaFontaine.Nylander placed Toronto up 3-2 on the power play at 19:15 of the 2nd period when he one-timed a shot from John Klingberg at the left skirmish dot. Klingberg was making his Maple Leafs debut after signing an one-year, $4.15 million contract as an unlimited freelance July 1. Cole Caufield tied it 3-3 with a power-play goal at 4:25 of the third when his shot from the slot deflected off the stick of Maple Leafs defenseman TJ Brodie. Caufield played his first regular-season video game because Jan. 19. MTLTOR: Caufield ties video game with PPG in 3rd Toronto outshot Montreal 16-2 in the second period.Jake Evans put the Canadiens up 1-0 at 3:01 of the initial period when he racked up on a breakaway after Brodie mishandled the puck and dropped at the offensive blue line.Newhook made it 2-0 at 1:10 of the second, racking up beside the fold off a pass from Juraj Slafkovsky. Slafkovsky was playing his first video game because Jan. 15, when a lower-body injury ended his rookie period."Not fun ready the goalies, particularly for the Toronto goalkeepers, " Samsonov said. ". I attempt to forget what's taking place, in some cases we have these games, it's not also enjoyable but it's OK. We win, we have two factors, so I'm so ecstatic concerning the outcomes."Caufield had actually an objective overturned at 5:50 when Toronto challenged for offside."We're a young team, and some great discovering lessons to go with on just how to manage the low and high of the video game
Tanner Pearson Jersey, " Canadiens ahead Kirby Dach stated. ". You're going up 3-0 and the objective obtains called back, and we do not know just how to push back or answer afterwards. There's psychological swings in the game, and we need to discover means to simply maintain progressing and rolling the means we were rolling. We sort of took our foot off the gas pedal."The Maple Leafs sufficed to 2-1 at 7:46 when Noah Gregor fired past Allen's glove from the left face-off dot. It was Gregor's Toronto debut; he authorized a 1 year, $775 000 agreement after attending training school on an expert trial run.
