Overview
- Rookie Gavin McKenna scored on a third-period power play Monday to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-1 win over the San Jose Sharks and halt a three-game losing streak.
- Auston Matthews had a goal and two assists and Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 saves for his first home win with Toronto, a performance that reporters and analysts called a timely bounce-back.
- Toronto entered the game with the NHL’s top penalty kill at 96.4 percent and successfully killed all four San Jose power plays, a special-teams display that helped preserve the victory.
- Matvei Michkov scored twice to lift the Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche, giving him six goals on the season and sparking back-to-back wins after an 0-9 start.
- The Pittsburgh Penguins’ woes continued with a loss to the Utah Mammoth that extended a multi-game skid, highlighting how early-season scheduling, goaltending swings and special-teams play are producing quick shifts in team fortunes and creating key storylines to watch next.