It was a playoff-type environment when the Toronto Maple Leafs took on Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday evening at Scotiabank Enviornment in Toronto. Between controversial hits and massive time saves, the Oilers and Maple Leafs went forwards and backwards on objectives all evening taking the sport to extra time the place it opened up due to it being three-on-three.
Mitch Marner’s extra time purpose is the two hundredth purpose of his NHL profession.
He’s the sixteenth skater in franchise historical past to attain 200 objectives as a Maple Leaf.
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Following an end-to-end rush by McDavid, that was damaged up by Mitch Marner and the Maple Leafs’ defence, the Maple Leafs took it again the opposite approach on a two-on-one break. Marner, who was the puck handler, determined to carry and shoot — going low blocker aspect on Stuart Skinner ricocheting the puck off the put up and into the online for the extra time winner and his two hundredth profession NHL purpose.
It was his sixth purpose of the season and team-leading twenty fourth level of the season and it got here on the heels of a workforce effort that included killing a five-minute penalty off and back-to-back objectives by Matthew Knies and Bobby McMann to get the Maple Leafs again into the sport within the third interval.
He’s the sixth participant from the 2015 NHL Draft – which included McDavid going first general – to succeed in the 200-goal milestone, becoming a member of McDavid (341), Jack Eichel (216), Mikko Rantanen (274), Kyle Connor (254) and Sebastian Aho (257) as gamers from that draft to have reached the mark.
As for the Maple Leafs, they’re nonetheless with out their captain, Auston Matthews, however that has by no means slowed down their different star ahead. In truth, with Matthews out of the lineup throughout his profession, Marner has an impressive 74 factors in 60 profession video games — and he carried on that development on Saturday evening.
This season, Marner has had 5 multi-point nights with out Matthews within the lineup, together with Saturday evening.
With the milestone purpose, Marner additionally turns into simply the sixteenth participant in franchise historical past to attain 200 objectives with the Maple Leafs. He ties Charlie Conacher (200) on the franchise’s all-time record at fifteenth and now sits only one purpose again of tying the nice Syl Apps for 14th all-time.
The win places the Maple Leafs at 11-6-2 in 19 video games this season. They’re second within the Atlantic Division and only one level again of the Florida Panthers who’ve a sport in hand.
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Assuming Marner continues his torrid tempo with the Maple Leafs this season, it is going to be an fascinating offseason of negotiations between Brad Treliving and the Marner camp.
