Mitch Marner had two goals and an assist in the third period and the Toronto Maple Leafs held on to defeat the visiting New York Rangers 5-3 Saturday night.
Patrick Marleau, Morgan Rielly and Andreas Johnsson also scored for the Maple Leafs, who scored four times in the third period en route to their third win in a row. John Tavares and Johnsson each added two assists.
Kevin Hayes and Neal Pionk each had a goal and an assist for the Rangers, and Chris Kreider added a goal.
Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen made 25 saves. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 31 shots for New York.
Marleau notched his 10th goal this season with a deflection from the left circle of Rielly’s point shot at 2:58 of the first period.
The Maple Leafs held a 15-10 advantage in shots on goal after one period.
The Maple Leafs killed off Marleau’s holding penalty assessed at 1:10 of the second period, then went on the power play at 6:10 when Rangers defenseman Adam McQuaid received two minor penalties – holding and cross-checking. The Rangers survived the four-minute short-handed situation.
The Rangers tied the score at 15:00 of the second when Pionk wired a shot from the right point for his fifth goal this season after a cross-ice pass from Jimmy Vesey. The Maple Leafs led in shots on goal 25-20 after two periods.
Toronto took a 2-1 lead at 1:37 of the third period on Johnsson’s eighth goal this season. Rielly shot in his 12th goal this season from the left circle at 5:26 of the third to put Toronto ahead 3-1. Hayes retaliated at 6:34 for his 10th this season to trim the lead to 3-2.
Marner scored at 12:53, breaking in alone with a nifty move to restore the two-goal margin.
The Rangers crept within one again on Kreider’s 16th goal of the season at 16:19. Marner added his 12th goal of the season into an empty net at 19:40. Toronto’s Tyler Ennis left the game with an ankle injury and did not return.

Lightning make their points again, whip Oilers
Steven Stamkos and Tyler Johnson each scored twice as the Tampa Bay Lightning extended their points streak with a 6-3 victory against the host Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night.
Nikita Kucherov added a goal and four assists and J.T. Miller also scored for the Lightning, who are 11-0-1 in their past 12 games, the longest points streak in the NHL this season. Tampa Bay wrapped up its four-game Western Canada trip by going 3-0-1.
Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy made 25 saves.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Alex Chiasson and Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers, who have lost three straight after going 8-1-1 in their previous 10 games. They dropped to 9-5-1 under coach Ken Hitchcock.
Mikko Koskinen made 39 saves in suffering his first defeat in eight decisions at Rogers Place this season.
Connor McDavid assisted on all three Edmonton goals. The first was the 200th of his NHL career, making him the fifth player in league history to reach the milestone before his 22nd birthday. The others are Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Dale Hawerchuk and Ron Francis. Stamkos scored at 17:09 of the first period to tie the score at 1-1 and got an insurance goal at 15:03 of the third, his 20th of the season.
Kucherov tied the score at 2-2 at 13:00 of the second period, stealing the puck from Edmonton’s Jesse Puljujarvi just inside the Lightning blue line and racing the length of the ice to beat Koskinen with a snap shot to the glove side. The Lightning took the lead 1:32 later as Miller set up in front of the net and beat Koskinen after taking a pass from Erik Cernak.
Tampa Bay took a 3-2 lead into the third period and extended it when Johnson scored at 4:17 off assists from Brayden Point and Kucherov. Johnson also scored at 18:35 of the third, again off assists from Point and Kucherov, to cap the scoring.

Streaking Jets ride G Brossoit past Canucks
Mark Scheifele’s goal with 1:32 left in the third period gave the visiting Winnipeg Jets a 1-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night.
Winnipeg goaltender Laurent Brossoit made 40 saves for the first shutout of his career. He has won eight of the nine games that he has started this season.
The Jets (24-10-2) swept their three-game season series with the Canucks and have now won 11 of their past 13 games overall. Winnipeg has beaten the Canucks in 12 of the teams’ past 13 meetings.
The Canucks suffered only the third loss in their past nine outings.
Vancouver goaltender Jacob Markstrom posted 23 saves on 24 shots. He suffered his first loss in seven games.
The Canucks outshot the Jets 29-17 in the first 40 minutes, including 17-7 in the second period, but could not beat a steady Brossoit, 25, who is in his first season as Winnipeg’s backup after four seasons in the Edmonton organisation.