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Max Domi scored two goals and Auston Matthews scored his 52nd goal of the season in Toronto's 7-3 victory against the Vegas Golden Knights at the T-Mobile Arena on Thursday, February 22nd. Matthews has recorded 10 goals in the past five games... this is the Maple Leafs' sixth straight win. The Golden Knights lost two games straight after they shutout the San Jose Sharks 4-0.
Maple Leafs lineup against the Golden Knights:
Knies - Matthews - Marner
Bertuzzi - Domi - Nylander
McMann - Tavares - Robertson
Holmberg - Kampf - Reaves
Brodie - Liljegren
Rielly - Lagesson
Benoit - McCabe
Jones
Samsonov
Golden Knights lineup against the Maple Leafs:
Barbashev - Roy - Marchessault
Brisson - Stephenson - Amadio
Cotter - Karlsson - Kolesar
Morelli - Froese - Rempal
Martinez - Pietrangelo
McNabb - Theodore
Hague - Whitecloud
Hill
Thompson
Jake McCabe opened the scoring at 10:00 of the first period, getting his sixth of the season. He shot from the right circle with a one-timer that hit Adin Hill's arm, deflecting in off Alec Martinez. David Kampf grabbed the puck at the bottom of the right circle before he cut through the crease to stuff it in for a two-nothing lead. Extending the lead to 3-0 at 5:40, John Tavares struck a wrister short side at the right circle for his 17th goal of the season. With 3:49 remaining in the first frame, Max Domi ended his five-game goal drought when he got his own rebound in past Logan Thompson to finish the first period with a 4-0 score.
Only 51 seconds into the second period, William Karlsson got Vegas on the board with a wrist shot from the high slot. Max Domi scored his second of the game and seventh of the season to make it 5-1, going coast to coast. He gathered the puck at the blue line after a miscommunication between Brayden McNabb and Chandler Stephenson, then on to finish a breakaway. Pontus Holmberg poked away the puck in the neutral zone from Jonathan Marchessault before driving in on Logan Thompson and scoring on a breakaway to make it 6-1.
59 seconds into the third, Jonathan Marchessault cracks a snap shot at the bottom of the right circle to make it a 6-2 game. Just 26 seconds after Marchessault's goal, Michael Amadio cut it to 6-3 after he took a seam pass from Ivan Barbashev in the right circle, scoring a snap shot and beating Martin Jones. Auston Matthews dropped the puck for Pontus Holmberg when he entered the offensive zone, then redirected Holmberg's wrister for the 7-3 final.
Notes:
- Not only did Auston Matthews score his 52nd of the season, but he also scored the 351st of his career. His 260 even-strength goals are the most among all since his 2016-17 debut, also 33 more than the next closest, Connor McDavid (227).
Matthews is the second Maple Leafs player since 1943-44 to have scored 10 goals in a five-game length... joining Rick Vaive (1982-83).
- Mitch Marner recorded two assists... He also recorded his 106th multi-assist game and passed Mats Sandin for third-most in franchise history. Marner is the first Maple Leafs player to record multiple assists in six consecutive games... He currently has 15 assists during the stretch.
- The six-game win streak for Toronto is their longest this season.
- Pontus Holmberg had a goal and an assist, and Martin Jones made 22 saves for Toronto.
- Jonathan Marchessault had a goal and an assist, and Shea Theodore recorded two assists. Adin Hill allowed three on 20 before he was replaced in the first by Logan Thompson, who made 18 saves for Vegas.
Postgame: Jake McCabe
Postgame: Pontus Holmberg
Postgame: Max Domi
Postgame: Sheldon Keefe
Postgame: Alex Pietrangelo
Postgame: Alec Martinez
Postgame: Bruce Cassidy
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