Leafs blow past Pens

The Pittsburgh Penguins bolted to a 2-0 lead Saturday night over the their host Toronto Maple Leafs.

But that was the end of the night for the Pens as the Leafs came back with three unanswered goals to stun the Pens, 3-2.

Travis Dermott,  Auston Matthews and Zach Hyman scored for Toronto.

“We just kept working, I thought we were playing pretty well,” Hyman said. “We just stuck with it, and it’s important when you get behind like that against a good team you don’t give them anything else, and Garret was great so it was good.”

Garret Sparks made 28 saves for the Leafs as they improved to 31-17-3.

“We seemed to have our legs tonight, especially early on,” Matthews said. “That’s always a key for us, playing fast and not giving them space obviously against a good team like that with star players.”

Sidney Crosby and Teddy Blueger gave the Penguins the first period lead.

“I thought our team at that point — I really thought we were playing well — we had the puck a lot and we were just down 2-0 so we just stayed the course and we able to get it done,” Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said.

The Leafs closed the gap to 2-1 before the first period ended.

“I thought our first period was pretty good,” Crosby said. “We hit a post and we didn’t go up 3-0 and they scored a shift or two later and got some momentum going into the second. I thought in the second we got outplayed.”

The Pens dropped to 28-18-6.

“Momentum swings here and there were key, probably a couple of lost battles,” Blueger said. “We maybe got outbattled in our zone in front of the net and gave up a couple rebounds. That’s kind of how the game goes, momentum shifts going our way and then their way. Unfortunately we weren’t able to score at the end but I thought we had a good push in the third.”

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Matt Murray made 30 saves in the loss.

“Probably just the net-front battles, I think. They played a hard game at our net front and defended well at theirs. That was the difference in the game, I think,” Murray said.