In Toronto, Tristan Jarry made 26 saves in his second straight shutout for the Pittsburgh Penguins, in a 2-0 win over the Maple Leafs, on Saturday night.
“I’m just going night in and night out focusing on my game doing everything I can, and the guys are doing a great job getting blocks, getting clears when we need to,” Jarry said. “I think that has been the key to our success, especially as of lately.”
The Pens improved to 7-6-4.
“He’s just steady, that’s the biggest thing,” the Penguins’ Sidney Crosby said. “Some of those saves, especially with the guys they have out there on 5-on-3’s, he’s calm, looks real calm in there. Not only is that great when he’s making the saves, but the way he looks, too, he looks calm in there, so that’s huge. We’ve got some good penalty killers, but your goalie has to be your best killer, and he was tonight.”
Jake Guentzel e and Jeff Carter scored in the first period for all the offense in the game.
“Tonight was tough, we had to defend a lot,” Crosby said. “They generated some good zone time and obviously with the power plays late, they were hanging around, so it was a good win.”
The Maple Leafs dropped to 11-6-1.
“Just how hard they play is what stood out to me,” Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe said. “I thought the first period, the goals they scored were very similar in nature. Handling their speed coming through the neutral zone was a problem for us there. Then they just defend real hard and make it tough on you. We got what we deserved in terms of our offense, we just didn’t make enough happen there tonight.”
Jack Campbell made 29 saves in the Toronto loss.
The Leafs were scoreless in six power play chances.
“Just like how we lost to a good team, we lost to a good penalty kill,” Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said. “They were just flat out better than us tonight.”
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