Maple Leafs' William Nylander closing in on family history - Sportsnet.ca

The Swede kicked the puck up to his stick to score the eventual winner in Wednesday’s 5-3 win over theNylander now has a career-high 24 goals and is just two behind his father Michael’s best season with more than 30 games still to play. Of chasing the family record, Nylander said: "Oh really, wow. Now we’ve got to step on it here."

Most important for the Leafs was the two more points added to the standings — bringing them level with the Florida Panthers at 61 points for the final playoff spot in the Atlantic Division .Auston Matthews opened the scoring with his 36th goal of the season — leaving him one behind David Pastrnak for the NHL lead — before Mitch Marner found Zach Hyman with a gorgeous backhand pass to make it 2-1.

Tyson Barrie and Andreas Johnsson, into an empty net, also scored for the Leafs, who had at least four goals for the eighth straight road game for the first time in franchise history. "Hey they can score," Stars interim coach Rick Bowness said pre-game. "Man I love their creativity, they’re great on the rush and you can see they’re making a very concerted effort to play a more structured game defensively.Denis Gurianov and Alexander Radulov, with two, replied for Dallas.

Frederik Andersen stopped 31 shots for Toronto and helped preserve the victory with a fabulous save on Jamie Benn in the dying seconds.

reporterchris Hes not even close to any of marleaus records tho...?

reporterchris Sid_Seixeiro How are you going to try and ruin this? LOL the kid is great. P.S. this teams 'core' is on avg what 23? They are this good and haven't even peaked yet timandsid

reporterchris Can we finally put the “not worth the deal”, trade him for a 4 or 5 D-man to bed. Kids got great talent and will only get better.

reporterchris Nope kids got lots to prove scoring 6-7 games in a row doesn’t make up for the clear lack of what’s been going on since the contract extension

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