{allcanada} Matthews gets 10th goal, Maple Leafs beat Oilers 4-2

 

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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Auston Matthews scored his 10th goal of the season as the Toronto beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 on Tuesday night for the Maple Leafs' second road win of the season.

James van Riemsdyk, Nazem Kadri and Zach Hyman also scored for Toronto, which has won two straight. Frederik Andersen stopped 28 shots.

Connor McDavid and Andrej Sekera scored for the Oilers, who have lost three in a row. Cam Talbot gave up four goals on 14 shots over the first two periods, and Jonas Gustavsson stopped all nine shots he faced in the third.

Toronto took a 1-0 lead not long after Edmonton's Ryan Nugent-Hopkins rang a shot off the post. William Nylander made a great pass on a rush and Matthews directed the puck past Talbot at 5:45 of the first.

Andersen made 12 saves in the opening period, including a huge glove stop to rob Leon Draisaitl in tight.

Less than 3 minutes into the second, van Riemsdyk was left completely alone in front of the Oilers net and had three whacks at the puck before getting it past Talbot for his 10th.

Sekera beat Andersen on a long shot from the point 2:01 later to cut the deficit in half.

Kadri restored the two-goal lead at 6:00. Leo Komarov picked a puck off Oilers defender Matt Benning and got it across to Kadri, who became the third Toronto player to get his 10th goal of the season in the game.

Hyman extended Toronto's lead to 4-1 with just over 3 minutes remaining in the middle period, swatting in a puck that bounced around in front of the net.

The Oilers cut into the lead four minutes into the third as McDavid made the most of a partial breakaway, scoring his 11th goal and league-leading 31st point.

NOTES: It was the second and final meeting between the Oilers and Maple Leafs this season. Toronto won the first contest 3-2 in overtime at the beginning of November.

UP NEXT

Toronto: At Calgary on Wednesday night.

Oilers: At Winnipeg on Thursday night.

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