Maple Leafs 6-3 Flames (4th February 2025) Game ReCAPT

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Calgary, Alberta-William Nylander had three goals for his second career hat trick, and Toronto Maple Leafs beat Calgary Flames 6-3 on Tuesday night.

John Tavares, Bobby McMann and Matthew Knies also scored for Toronto, who drew a point behind first place Florida in the Atlantic Division. Auston Matthews had three assists and Joseph Woll stopped 23 shots.

Matt Coronato, Yegor Sharangovich and Joel Farabee scored for Calgary, who started the night two points ahead of Vancouver for the second Wild Card in the Western Conference. Dustin Wolf had 24 savings.

Nylander’s first hat trick was exactly eight years earlier in Boston. With nine goals in its last eight games, Nylander has reached the 33-goal mark, second in the NHL-four behind Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl.

The game started off a strange start with both teams scoring what they thought was the game -opening goal, only for both to be taken from the scoreboard.

At. At 06:30 of the first period, Tavares fought a rebound out of the air past Wolf, but upon review it was waved to be a high-stick. Just 1:39 Later it was Farabee who jerked in a loose puck in the curly, but Toronto challenged the call and the goal was overturned for the target group.

Takeaways

Maple Leafs: Forward Mitch Marner (lower body injury), fourth in the NHL in the scoring, missed his first season match. His absence did not hurt Toronto’s power play. Maple Leafs scored on their first two chances against the flames on the way to finish 2 for 4.

FLAMES: The goals of Coronato and Sharangovich came on the benefits of extended two-man as Calgary’s power play ended up 2 for 5 with the extra man to improve to 9 in 24 over the last seven games.

Keying moment

Tied 2-2 in the second, Toronto took the lead too well with 7:32, as McMann chose to hold the puck on a 2-on-1 with Steven Lorentz and fired a shot past Wolf High on his blocking page to his 16th goal.

Key State

It’s been a party or famine too late for Maple Leaf’s offensively. In five of their last 10 matches they have been kept to fewer than two goals. In the other five, they have scored four or more.

Up next

Maple Leafs plays at Seattle Thursday and Flames host Colorado.

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