Maple Leafs brush aside Wild

The Toronto Maple Leafs scored four goals in the second period Tuesday night to erase a 1-0 lead by the Minnesota Wild, en route to a 4-2 win.

Mitchell Marner had a goal and three points in the win and his linemate, Morgan Rielly, assisted on all four goals.

“I think we just talked about being patient [in the first intermission] and not trying to force too much. I thought we played a good first [and] obviously didn’t get the results we wanted, but I thought we came out and just kind of stayed the course,” Rielly said. “We took advantage of some power-play opportunities and other than that, we played simple and went to work. It’s good when we can stay patient like that.”

Two of the goals came on the power play.

“We wanted to get our power play going tonight; that was huge for our team,” Marner said. “We stayed patient with our game plan, and that’s something we have to keep going forward with.”

Frederik Andersen made 27 saves in the win.

Luke Kunin and Gerald Mayhew scored for the Wild who dropped to 1-5-0 and have not looked good doing it.

“We need to be a 20-man team,” Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau said. “It’s not the veterans, it’s not the rookies … everybody’s got to chip in, or bad things are going to happen.

“We don’t have a team that can rely on one guy. We don’t have Auston Matthews that’s going to score 50-60 goals. Everybody on different nights has got to contribute.”

Andreas Johnsson,  Auston Matthews and John Tavares all scored in the second period.

“Just the way the circumstances were and my instincts when I saw Mitch in front, it was just to shoot it then rather than carrying it in a bit more and giving the goalie time to recover,” Tavares said. “I was able to put it in a good spot and Mitch gave me a great screen.”

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Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves in the loss.

“I wish I had a magic potion to make everybody faster, but I don’t,” Boudreau said. “That’s why you have to grind it out and play maybe a boring hockey game. You can’t get in an end-to-end game with some of these speedy teams. We played great in the first period and in the start of the second, but it gets frustrating when you get scored on three or four times in a short span.”