Mitch Marner made a goal and two assists for Toronto Maple Leafs with a 6-2 wins against the OTTAWA senators visiting the 1st game of the Eastern Conference on Sunday.
Each of each of John Tavares and William Nylander had a goal and assistance, Auston Matthews had two assists, and Anthony Stolarz saved 31 for Maple Leafs, the seed 2 of the Eastern Conference.
Drake Batherson and Greig scored and Linus Ulmark saved 18 for senators, the first joker team from the east.
When Toronto switched to Oliver Ekman-Tarson, where Scott Laughton was in a hurry, he scored a goal in his second shot and sent a wrist shot between the mixed signs to get ahead 1-0 in the first period.
Maple Leafs made 2-0 in a separation by Marner at 12:18, and after the senators cut it to 2-1 in 16:18.
Stolarz saved a wrist drawn by Dylan Cozens, but Batherson carved the disk to the network covering the Stolarz rebound.
When Toronto, Tim Stutzle, whistled to ride Chris Tanev, went to the first power game of the game, and Tavares scored a man with the advantage of a man to increase the leadership to 3-1 in the second.
Nylander made a shot from the left circle where Tavares leaned towards the network. Ullmark saved, but the rebound went into the nest and the Tavares disk hit the network.
Maple Leafs threw three seconds to 5 to 3 power games. He won Tavares Faceoff and Nylander had a disc on the left circle with a wrist shot for a high nest and a wrist shot for 4-1 at 7:19.
Greig entered a loose disc in front of wrinkles and pulled the network to cut the third period to 4-2 at 4:00.
Morgan Rielly 45 seconds later, a three-goal leaded, and Matthew Knies increased Toronto’s third power game goal to 6-2 at 13:13.
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