The Toronto Maple Leafs played the second game of their five-game road trip and took a 3-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.
Entering into this game, the Toronto Maple Leafs were coming off of a solid victory in Winnipeg on Saturday and were looking to get a good jump on the western portion of their trip.
They did not do so.
Though the Leafs had a strong first period, they really didn’t have a very good game, and their best player was their goalie, who made 30 saves and kept the game close.
Despite firing five shots on net, Auston Matthews’ cold streak continued, and he has just one goal on the year. He almost scored… But it was narrowly stopped right at the line and the curse continues for his entire line.
Michael Bunting and Mitch Marner have also been unable to score, but this line is dominating and the goals will come.
John Tavares may be on the shelf for a while as well, as he was hit in the back of the leg with some friendly fire and had to leave the game.
Ilya Samsonov is playing out of his mind for the team, but it wasn’t enough last night.
More on this later and it’s only seven games into the season, so there is a lot of time to patch things up… (stats naturalstattrick.com).
With that said, here is the first takeaway: