Canadiens vs Maple Leafs

MONTREAL CANADIENS (20-40-11) at TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (46-19-6)

3. Price is taking part in practices these days, but still not ready for a comeback in goal. 2. Nick Suzuki is on the verge of his first 20-goal season, and he and Cole Caufield usually present problems for the Leafs defence. Article content

After another MVP-level performance from Auston Matthews pushed the Maple Leafs over the top in Dallas, Toronto returns home with a chance to clinch a ...

There is lots to continue to play for there, but most importantly, I just want to make sure we are getting our game right and we feel like we’ve been trending in the right direction for a while. I would say the lack of practice time and the pace of the schedule is the greatest challenge because you can’t really get a hold of things, but if you recall, a lot of my focus at that time was to just get the team feeling good, confident, positive, and believing in themselves and believing in what we were doing For [Matthews] to do something like that and to have that chance is pretty remarkable. We were a team that at the time was outside the playoffs but certainly had great expectations to make its way to the playoffs. That’s what I see in terms of potential and where we can get to in order to take another step as a hockey team. In terms of when we think about the best is yet to come, he’s leading our team to new heights. We got a little bit of a taste of that when he got 50 here. The only change comes on the fourth line, where Spezza will draw in and Abruzzese will be a healthy scratch. Keeping the puck out is more the question he and the Leafs are looking to answer after allowing 21 goals in their last six games. Now, Toronto is in a position to clinch a playoff spot with a win against a team that has given them problems this season; the Montreal Canadiens. However, they haven’t exactly played fantastic hockey at five on five, where they have a CF% of just 42.7 — last in the league– and an xGF% of 43.1, which is third last. Caufield rides into Toronto on a three-game goal streak, closing in on the 20-goal and 40-point plateaus as the end of his rookie season draws near.

Montreal aims to take the season series versus its playoff-bound rival.

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Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jake Allen left Saturday's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs with a lower-body injury and will not return.

Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jake Allen left Saturday's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs with a lower-body injury and will not return. Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jake Allen left Saturday's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs with a lower-body injury and will not return. Allen left the game near the end of the first period after a flurry in front of the Canadiens' net that led to Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews scoring to give Toronto a 1-0 lead.

Toronto wrapped up a playoff spot for the sixth straight straight season and hit 100 points in the standings. Matthews' opener marked his 50th goal in his last ...

“He had some really nice words,” Matthews said. “He’s doing something special right now,” said defenseman Morgan Rielly, Toronto’s longest serving player. It’s extremely humbling.” “It’s pretty surreal. “I don’t really have too many words for that,” Matthews said. TORONTO -- — Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 57th and 58th goals 27 seconds apart in the first period to help the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 on Saturday night.

The Toronto Maple Leafs clinched a playoff spot with their 3-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens Saturday night.

Montembault came up with a couple nice stops to keep the score at 2-0 early in the second before Montreal got on the board. He's such a good guy off the ice and he's such an exceptional player.'' "You get chills in your bones,'' Matthews said with a grin. Cole Caufield and Joel Edmundson replied for Montreal (20-41-11). Jake Allen stopped the first 14 shots he faced before leaving with an apparent leg injury as he stretched in vain for Matthews' first. He's one of the best players to ever play. "I couldn't be happier for him. "He had some really nice words,'' Matthews said. Caufield made an incredible play to keep the puck in at the Leafs' blue line to extend a sequence that eventually saw Edmundson score his second at 5:58. Matthews is now on pace for 67 goals in his 77-game season— he missed three contests with a wrist injury and two via suspension— and could become the first player to score 65 since Alex Ovechkin in 2007-08. "He's doing something special right now,'' said defenceman Morgan Rielly, Toronto's longest serving player. Matthews was surprised to be honoured during Saturday's first TV timeout for eclipsing Vaive. He rose to his skates on the bench, tapped his chest and acknowledged to the adoring crowd at Scotiabank Area. Matthews extended his point streak to 16 games (21 goals, 10 assists) as the Leafs clinched a playoff spot for the sixth straight season and reached 100 points in the standings with 10 contests left on the schedule.

Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips. Toronto Maple Leafs. Rookie goalie Erik Kallgren will get ...

Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips. Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.

Auston Matthews' scoring has secured a spot for the Maple Leafs in the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs.

Kallgren made 24 saves in his ninth NHL game, running his record to 5-2-1. Just 27 seconds after beating Allen, Matthews fooled Montembeault with a low wrist shot at 13:59. “He had some really nice words,” Matthews said. “It feels good,” defenceman Morgan Rielly said of booking a spot in the post-season tournament. The Leafs, now 47-19-6, reached 100 points for the sixth time in franchise history. No NHL player had scored 50 in a 50-game span since 1995-96, when superstar Mario Lemieux did it for the Pittsburgh Penguins.