William Nylander and Morgan Rielly each had a goal and an assist and Michael Hutchinson made 31 saves for his sixth career shutout as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the host Edmonton Oilers 3-0 Monday night.
Zach Hyman also scored for the NHL-leading Maple Leafs, who moved eight points ahead of the second-place Oilers in the North Division. The Oilers were blanked for the second time in a row after taking a 4-0 defeat against Toronto on Saturday in the opener of a three-game series at Rogers Place. The Maple Leafs’ Jack Campbell stopped 30 shots on Saturday as No. 1 goalie Frederik Andersen remains day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
Edmonton goaltender Mikko Koskinen was pulled after allowing three goals on 10 shots in the first period. Mike Smith came on in relief and stopped all 13 Toronto shots he faced.
Toronto improved to 6-1-0 in its past seven games. Edmonton has dropped two in a row after winning eight of the previous nine. Hyman gave the Maple Leafs the lead at 7:19 of the first, taking a pass from Rielly and slipping a backhander past Koskinen from close range.
Nylander made it 2-0 at 10:20 with an unassisted goal, carrying the puck over the blue line before putting a backhander from between the faceoff circles over the goalie’s left shoulder. Rielly made it 3-0 with a power-play goal at 18:07, taking a slap shot from the point that somehow trickled between Koskinen’s pads. The Oilers went 0-for-4 on the power play while the Maple Leafs were 1-for-4. Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews missed his second consecutive game because of a wrist injury. Matthews, who leads the league with 18 goals, is considered day-to-day. The game got chippy in the final minute, with Edmonton’s Josh Archibald and Toronto’s Travis Dermott getting into a fight and the Oilers’ Darnell Nurse and Maple Leafs’ Zach Bogosian receiving misconduct penalties.


Knights rally to capture OT win, end Wild’s win streak
Max Pacioretty had two goals and an assist, including the winning goal in overtime, and Mark Stone had a career-high five assists as Vegas Golden Knights rallied from a 4-2 deficit to snap the Minnesota Wild’s six-game winning streak, 5-4, on Monday night in Las Vegas. Pacioretty redirected Stone’s crossing pass from the right doorstep past Cam Talbot at the end of a two-on-one break for the game-winner two minutes into OT after Vegas’ Alex Tuch had tied it with 42 seconds left in regulation. Stone became the first NHL player in three years to log five primary assists in a single game.
Cody Glass and Nicolas Hague also scored goals for Vegas, which extended its win streak to three games. Marc-Andre Fleury, making his ninth consecutive start, finished with 26 saves. Marcus Foligno had two goals and an assist, Jordan Greenway and Nick Bonino each scored goals and Jonas Brodin had two assists for Minnesota. Talbot made 34 saves.
Following a scoreless first period that saw both Glass and Jonathan Marchessault fire shots off the post, the teams combined for six goals over a 11-minute span in the second period.
Vegas took a 1-0 lead at the 7:09 mark on a power-play goal by Glass, who redirected Stone’s centring pass between Talbot’s pass for his third goal of the season. Minnesota tied it less than two minutes later when Greenway knocked in his own rebound of a shot that bounced off Fleury’s blocker into the slot for his third goal of the season.
Foligno then gave the Wild a 2-1 lead just 66 seconds later when Brodin’s shot from the left wing ricocheted off his skate into his shin pad and through Fleury’s pads. The Golden Knights tied it less than four minutes later with another power-play goal by Pacioretty who tapped in Stone’s crossing pass into the right side of the net for his ninth goal of the season.
Minnesota responded with two goals in just 19 seconds to take a 4-2 lead after two periods. Bonino got the first, his second of the season, when he put in a rebound of a Nico Sturm wraparound try at 17:53. Foligno followed when he buried a wrist shot from the left circle past Fleury for his sixth goal of the season. The Golden Knights rallied to tie it on Hague’s one-timer from inside the blue line and Tuch’s redirect of a Stone pass with 42 seconds to go after Fleury had been pulled for an extra attacker.