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  • Maple Leafs hang on 4-3 over Flyers in weekday matinee

    Maple Leafs hang on 4-3 over Flyers in weekday matinee

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    TORONTO — Goals from Calle Jarnkrok and Mitchell Marner ignited the Toronto Maple Leafs late in the second period. They then survived a late-game scare to score a 4-3 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday afternoon.

    In their final outing before the Christmas break, the Maple Leafs (21-7-6) increased their victory string at Scotiabank Arena to six games and a perfect 5-0 in December.

    Only the Boston Bruins, who were scheduled to play the Winnipeg Jets later Thursday, have a better home record at 17-0-2 to the Maple Leafs’ 13-2-3.

    The Flyers (11-16-7) arrived in Toronto with the second-worst record in the Eastern Conference.

    But after the Maple Leafs built a 4-1 advantage, Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee scored 83 seconds apart to make it a one-goal game with 6:36 left in the third period.

    Farabee missed an open net a couple of shifts after his goal.

    Toronto buzzed around the visitors before a matinee crowd of 18,908, but Flyers goalie Carter Hart stopped the first 23 shots he faced.

    The 24th shot, a Jarnkrok redirect from a Marner shot, finally beat Hart with 3:10 left in the second period. Pierre Engvall, playing in his 200th career game, recorded the secondary assist on Jarnkrok’s goal.

    Marner slid a shot underneath Hart’s right pad 2:47 later for Toronto’s second goal, 13 seconds into a power play.

    Michael Bunting kept the good vibrations moving by completing a William Nylander to Auston Matthews passing play for a two-goal lead.

    Nylander hit the 20-goal mark in the third period before Frost tucked in a wrist shot on the next shift.

    The Maple Leafs outshot their opponents 34-19. Toronto backup Ilya Samsonov made 16 saves to Hart’s 30.

    Hart was on a personal five-game win streak. He foiled Marner on a short-handed breakaway early in the opening period.

    The Flyers then skated the other way and turned Hart’s momentum-making save into a power play goal from defenseman Tony DeAngelo on a slapshot from the high slot.

    UP NEXT

    Maple Leafs: Begin a three-game road trip against the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday.

    Flyers: At Carolina on Friday night.

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  • Matthews breaks tie in 3rd, Maple Leafs beat Capitals 3-2

    Matthews breaks tie in 3rd, Maple Leafs beat Capitals 3-2

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    TORONTO — Auston Matthews broke a third-period tie, Ilya Samsonov made 24 saves against his former Washington teammates and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Capitals 3-2 on Thursday night.

    John Tavares and Calle Jarnkrok also scored and Morgan Rielly added two assists to help the Maple Leafs rebound from an opening 4-3 loss at Montreal on Wednesday night.

    “Good bounce-back win.” Matthews said.

    Nic Dowd and Marcus Johansson scored for Washington, coming off a 5-2 home loss to Boston on Wednesday night. Charlie Lindgren stopped 36 shots.

    “A start we don’t want to have,” Washington captain Alex Ovehckin said. “A wake-up call.”

    Matthews scored at 6:55 of the third, his first goal of the season after leading the NHL last season with 60. Mark Giordano found a seam on a point shot that Matthews got a piece of with his stick before it handcuffed Lindgren and dribbled over the goal line.

    “We had a frank discussion this morning,” Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said. “The guys responded really well.”

    Samonov and the Maple Leafs held on late, killing two penalties and weathering a stretch with Lindgren off for an extra attacker.

    “A lot of emotion in the first period,” the Russian netminder said. “First game with the Leafs for me and (against) my old team.”

    Toronto opened the scoring at 6:40 of the first period on a power play that finally clicked when Rielly found Tavares at the lip of the crease with a slick feed.

    “We talked about being more patient with our game,” Tavares said. “We tried to do a little too much (in Montreal), caught us chasing a little bit.”

    The Capitals responded at 9:57, with Dowd scoring from close range. Johansson gave Washington the lead on a shot off the rush with 6:08 left in the period.

    Toronto tied it at 4:03 of the second. Alexander Kerfoot took a pass from Rielly at the offensive blue line and delayed before finding Jarnkrok with a terrific feed for his first with the Maple Leafs after signing in free agency.

    Samsonov was drafted 22nd overall by Washington at the 2015 draft, but didn’t receive a qualifying offer from Washington, making him a free agent. The 25-year-old was 52-22-8 with a .902 save percentage and 2.81 goals-against average in 89 regular-season appearances with the Capitals.

    UP NEXT

    Capitals: Host Montreal on Saturday night to open a two-game homestand.

    Maple Leafs: Host Ottawa on Saturday night to continue a four-game homestand.

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