Golden Knights report: Team’s skating, goaltending nemeses strike

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At a glimpse

Maple Leafs triumph 4-0

RJ’s 3 stars

■ 3. Maple Leafs close helping William Nylander — He had a extremity and an assistance and was unsafe with the puck connected his instrumentality each night. He had 5 shots connected goal, the second-most of the game.

■ 2. Maple Leafs close helping Mitchell Marner — He had a extremity and 2 assists to treble his constituent full for the year. His spinning people successful the archetypal play was a happening of beauty.

■ 1. Maple Leafs halfway Auston Matthews — The NHL’s starring extremity scorer past play tallied doubly Tuesday. He has 7 goals successful six vocation games against the Knights. He besides has 3 multi-goal games against them, the astir by immoderate hostile successful franchise history.

Key play

Matthews’ power-play extremity successful the 2nd period.

The Knights were outplayed successful the archetypal play but lone trailed 1-0. Matthews’ tally gave Toronto a comfy pb and it ne'er appeared threatened after.

The play was pugnacious to support for the Knights due to the fact that some Nylander and Matthews were skating downhill towards the net. Nylander passed the puck crossed the violative portion from the close ellipse to the left, and Matthews buried the provender for his 2nd extremity of the year.

The Maple Leafs’ power-play execution was successful crisp opposition to the Knights’, who went 0-for-3 connected the antheral vantage Tuesday and fell to 0-for-18 connected the year.

Key stat

Two — The fig of times the Knights person been unopen retired successful 9 games.

They didn’t people lone 3 times past season. The squad is scoring 2.22 goals per game, 28th-most successful the NHL. They’ve scored 3 oregon much goals 5 times.

Campbell stands gangly

There whitethorn beryllium nary goaltender successful the satellite the Knights bask seeing little than Toronto’s Jack Campbell.

They’ve been stymied by the 29-year-old successful their 4 meetings, including Tuesday’s 24-save shutout. Campbell has stopped 155 of the 159 shots the Knights person thrown astatine him successful his career, for a prevention percent of .975. He’s 3-1 successful those games.

Hostile situation

The Knights person ne'er won successful Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena successful 4 tries.

It’s 1 of 4 buildings the squad is winless in, on with Montreal’s Bell Centre, Boston’s TD Garden and the league’s newest gathering successful Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena. The Knights person an accidental to instrumentality Montreal disconnected the database erstwhile they play the Canadiens connected Saturday.

Knights quotable

“That wasn’t adjacent to bully enough. Probably the worst 1 we’ve had since I’ve travel to Vegas I think.” — Knights goaltender Robin Lehner.

Knights’ adjacent 10

At Senators, 4 p.m. Thursday

At Montreal, 4 p.m. Saturday

At Detroit, 3 p.m. Sunday

Vs. Seattle, 7 p.m. Nov. 9

Vs. Minnesota, 7 p.m. Nov. 11

Vs. Vancouver, 7 p.m. Nov. 13

Vs. Carolina, 7 p.m. Nov. 16

Vs. Detroit, 7 p.m. Nov. 18

Vs. Columbus, 7 p.m. Nov. 20