Maple Leafs end Pens streak in 4-1 win

Jack Campbell made 45 saves in the Toronto win.

“He’s been outstanding for us all season, but I just thought today was maybe as calmed and poised as he’s looked all season,” Toronto head coach Sheldon Keefe said. “I thought we defended pretty well, but at times when there is lots of stuff happening in tight, even the difficult saves I thought he made look easy tonight, and I thought that was really, really good. He made the coach feel very comfortable on the bench today.

“It’s unfortunate that we gave up the goal because we didn’t do a good job on that, it was a tap in at the side of the post, but he deserved a shutout today.”

The Maple Leafs improved to 32-12-3.

Evgeni Malkin was the lone striker for Pittsburgh.

“We have to be at our best and we weren’t tonight,” Pittsburgh head coach Mike Sullivan said. “We’ve got an opportunity on Sunday (against the Carolina Hurricanes) to hit the reset button and go back to playing the hockey we know we are capable of.”

Toronto’s David Kampf scored a shorthanded goal for a 3-1 lead .

The Penguins dropped to 31-12-8.

“You have to learn from it but obviously try to move by it,” the Penguins’ Sidney Crosby said. “I think we know we can be better and we have to execute better, and for whatever reason we didn’t. It was consistently, whether it was special teams or 5-on-5, we just didn’t do a good enough job of executing. It’s hard to win games like that.”

After Matthews gave the Maple  Leafs a 1-0 lead, Morgan Rielly pushed the advantage to 2-0.

“I just saw some room, that’s all,” Rielly said. “On those power-play breakouts with two guys behind me, usually it’s a drop (pass) automatic, so when there is a chance to go, you want to be able to take advantage of it.”

Tristan Jarry made 25 saves in the Pens loss.