The Toronto Maple Leafs picked up a 3-2 win over the Oilers in Edmonton on Saturday night.
The score was not as close as the final result.
The Leafs had a 3-0 lead late before the Oilers struck for two cosmetic goals.
The three-goal lead was courtesy of John Tavares, Morgan Rielly and Jake Muzzin.
“Probably, other than the last couple of minutes, we played a really good road game,” Tavares said. “We didn’t get rewarded as much as I think we could have. Everyone was doing a lot of good things out there and making it hard for them to establish any offense or any momentum, and we generated some chances and did a good job getting a three-goal lead that proved to be enough.”
Frederik Andersen made 31 saves to get the win.
“They are a good hockey team, they are solid all over,” Connor McDavid (two assists) said. “They are obviously skilled, and they just come at you in waves. Our goalie was good and held us in and gave us a little bit of a chance.”
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Oscar Klefbom dressed up the score with goals with less than two minutes left in regulation.
“They are a good team and they made us pay when they had their opportunities,” Oilers defenseman Oscar Klefbom said. “Obviously, we came up short. You can’t give a team like that as many opportunities as we gave them.”
Toronto improved to 42-21-5.
“I thought we played well, I thought we had lots of guys going, and we controlled the puck,” Leafs head coach Mike Babcock said. “I would like to have the last two minutes back, we couldn’t figure out where to stand at the end, but it’ll give us good tape to go back and look at it and fix that. You can’t give up that, but I thought [Andersen] was real strong, and it’s a good win, and obviously, five of six points on the road is pretty good.”
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There was an Anthony Stolarz sighting in Edmonton, he made 37 saves in his first appearance since being acquired from the Philadelphia Flyers.
“It was a rich game. It’s a great game to evaluate on,” Oilers head coach Ken Hitchcock said. “It tells you what you’ve got now and what you’ve got moving forward, and when you’ve got a team that can play at that tempo, especially through the middle of the ice, any mistakes get exposed.”
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