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PITTSBURGH (AP) Frederik Andersen continued the Toronto Maple Leafs early season undefeated run on the road with a perfect night in goal.Andersen made 31 saves for his first shutout of the season and 16th overall and the Maple Leafs routed the high-scoring Pittsburgh Penguins 5-0 on Saturday night.Its a tough building against a really good team Michael Frolik Jersey , Andersen said. We were talking about the first period being key for us and I thought we came out flying, skating really well and we didnt allow too much.Morgan Rielly scored twice and John Tavares had a goal and an assist to help Toronto improve to 6-0 on the road. The Maple Leafs are averaging an NHL-best 5.4 goals on the road. Zach Hyman and Patrick Marleau also scored and Kasperi Kapanen had two assists.The Maple Leafs picked up their first win with star forward Auston Matthews out indefinitely with a shoulder injury. Toronto scored just one goal in each of its two straight regulation losses without Matthews, who has 10 goals and 16 points in 11 games.Guys are willing and able to accept more responsibility, more minutes and bigger situations, Rielly said. The strength of this team is the depth. I think there are lots of guys that can take that responsibility.Evgeni Malkin saw his nine-game point streak end for the Penguins. They have lost three straight.You win a few games in a row and you feel good about yourself, but the league has a funny way of humbling you and right now weve been humbled, Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. We didnt deserve to win tonight.Matt Murray made 26 saves. Murray, who shut out Toronto on Oct. 18, briefly left the game midway through the second period with an equipment issue. Backup Casey DeSmith stopped both shots he faced.The Penguins were swept in a home-and-home series with the New York Islanders on Tuesday and Thursday. They won their previous four games in Canada by a combined 23-6 margin Authentic Mikael Backlund Jersey , including a 3-0 shutout at Toronto on Oct. 18.Pittsburgh went 61-15-6 at home, finishing with at least 30 home wins each of the last two seasons. But the Penguins won just two of their first six home games this season. Carolina was the last team to shut out the Penguins at home on Jan. 4 during the 2017-18 season.We got beat by a team that was hungry, Sullivan said. When we come with the right attitude and emotional investment, the rest of our game follows suit. If were not invested, we can look ordinary, and I think that was the case tonight.Tavares opened the scoring midway through the first period when he tipped a Mitch Marner shot behind Murray. Tavares opened the season with six goals in his first four games, but he had just one in his next nine before scoring on Saturday.Marleau gave the Leafs a 2-0 lead just 44 seconds into the second period. Marleau took a pass from Kapanen off the rush and slipped a backhand deke behind Murray from the top of the crease.Rielly made it 3-0 12 seconds after a power play expired. He snuck behind the Penguins defense off the rush, took a pass from Tavares and lifted a glove-side wrist shot underneath the crossbar.Were looking forward to getting home, Rielly said. Its important we get some wins at home. We feel good about going on the road Mike Smith Jersey , but its time we start to assert ourselves.NOTES: The Maple Leafs are 4-0 when they score first. Penguins F Derick Brassard missed his fourth straight game with a lower-body injury. Penguins D Jack Johnson played in his 800th NHL game and F Carl Hagelin appeared in his 500th game. The Maple Leafs recalled F Trevor Moore from Toronto of the American Hockey League on Friday, but he was scratched.UP NEXTMaple Leafs: Host Vegas on Tuesday night.Penguins: Host New Jersey on Monday night. BOSTON (AP) Sean Kuraly isnt so good at waiting.The Boston Bruins forward is usually going full-speed on the ice, whether its chasing the puck on the forecheck or sizing up an opponent for a hit. So when he saw David Pastrnaks shot hit off the post and flutter into the air, it was tough for Kuraly to be patient.A play like that doesnt come around very often. When it does, its kind of a waiting game, he said on Thursday night after bunting the puck into the net to help the Bruins beat Toronto 5-1 in the opener of their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series.Its not really my style, said Kuraly, who had to resist hitting the puck before it fell below the level of the crossbar to avoid being called for a high stick. To go from 100 mph and hitting everything that moves and (wait) in front of the net, it can be a challenge.Brad Marchand Artemi Panarin Jersey , David Backes and David Krejci each scored a power-play goal, and Tuukka Rask stopped 26 shots for Boston. Pastrnak scored to make it 3-1 with 38 seconds left in the second period, then moved in on goalie Frederik Andersen seven minutes into the third before backhanding the puck off the post.Kuraly waited, and then two-handed the puck off the shaft of his stick like a bunt as he fell over the sprawling goalie.Im a terrible baseball player, he said. It has nothing to do with baseball.Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is back at the TD Garden on Saturday night.Weve got a day to solve our problems, Toronto coach Mike Babcock said. We could feel sorry for ourselves if we want tonight, but thats a waste of time and energy.Boston already scored two power-play goals when Torontos Nazem Kadri was thrown out of the game and given a five-minute major for an elbow to Tommy Wingels head. Three-minutes later, Krejci bounced it in off Andersen from behind to make it 5-1.I thought it was the appropriate call, Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. Where it goes from here is out of my hands.Zach Hyman scored Torontos only goal Shane Doan Jersey , and Andersen made 35 saves.They cranked it up, and we didnt answer, defenseman Ron Hainsey said.The matchup is the first in the postseason for the teams since Torontos Game 7 collapse in the first round in 2013, when Boston rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the third period, scoring twice in the last 82 seconds of regulation to send it into overtime. The Bruins went on to reach the Stanley Cup Finals.The Maple Leafs never had a lead to blow in this one.And the Boston power play was the reason.Obviously, our penalty kill wasnt good enough, Babcock said. We took too many penalties in the third, and the third was no contest.With James Van Riemsdyk off for hooking, Marchand scored on a backhander to give the Bruins the lead 5:28 into the game. Hyman tied it for the Leafs with about three minutes before the break but Backes put Boston back in front early in the second on a pass from Krejci.Pastrnak converted a pass from Marchand with 38 seconds left in the period to make it 3-1 www.floridapanthersteamshops.com , and then set up the next goal when he moved in on Andersen and bounced it off the post. As the puck fluttered in the air over the sprawled goalie, Kuraly came in trailing the play and knocked it into the net.NOTESPastrnak and Torey Krug had two assists apiece. Toronto was 0-for-3 on the power play. Boston was 3-for-6. The teams came into the game 34-34-1 in their first 69 playoff matchups, but the Maple Leafs hold an 8-6 series edge. The Bruins pledged the profits of their 50/50 raffle at least $50,000 to support the victims of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus crash. |
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