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 late in the third period Saturday night in the 4-2 victory over the Washington Capitals Brandon Montour Jersey Kids , the Toronto Maple Leafs center joined some elite company.In scoring Toronto’s final goal of the season, Matthews notched his league-leading 10th after six games.He is the fifth player in the modern era (since 1943-44) to reach at least 10 goals in his team’s first 20 games of the season. The others were Bobby Hull, 1965-66 (Chicago Blackhawks), Mike Bossy, 1984-85 (New York Islanders), Dino Ciccarelli, 1986-87 (Minnesota North Stars) and Mario Lemieux, 1988-89 (Pittsburgh Penguins).Article continues below ...The Maple Leafs (5-1-0) won all four games on their road trip and will open a three-game homestand Monday night with a game against the Los Angeles Kings (2-2-1), who lost 5-1 to the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.Another important aspect for the Maple Leafs in their win over last season’s Stanley Cup champions was that they had scoring from players like Josh Leivo (first of the season) and Par Lindholm (first of his NHL career) and Kasperi Kapanen (second of the season).“I think you have to have that,” Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said. “Obviously, it’s great that our big guys got off to a good start because I think having them feeling good is so important. In saying that, part of the reason we’re going to have success is we have real good depth.”The Kings, meanwhile, will be trying to return to the standard of Thursday when Jack Campbell stopped 40 shots to earn his first career NHL shutout in a 3-0 victory over the Canadiens in Montreal.Jeff Carter had a goal and two assists in that game Womens Cam Fowler Jersey , his first points of the season.It was different in Ottawa. The defense broke down and the power play continued to sputter.“We’ve definitely got to clean some things up,” center Trevor Lewis, who scored the Kings’ goal on Saturday, told the Los Angeles Times. “I think first and foremost it starts with our compete, right off the bat. We’ve got a good veteran group, so we’ll be better.”Campbell allowed four goals on 11 shots before being replaced by Peter Budaj against the Senators.“We’ve got to do a lot better job of not making (Campbell) face those types of quality chances, especially on the road in a big game,” Kings coach John Stevens said. “You regroup and you go again. I didn’t like the way those goals were scored. The pucks that we turned over that end up in the back of the net — we had bodies around our net that had position on us, and we had pucks on top that got through to the net. Those are all, to me, mental things that you can make a difference in if manage them in the right place.”The Kings’ power play remains 0-for-18 for the season despite adding Ilya Kovalchuk.“I thought we got some momentum, but you’ve got to score goals,” Kings center Anze Kopitar said. “But I think we took a step in the right direction.”There is not much wrong with Toronto’s power play, which is 8-for-17 on the season. Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly has six assists in man-advantage situations.Rielly earned his 10th assist overall of the season Saturday on Matthews’ third-period goal. Rielly also has three goals and has had at least one point in six consecutive games. He is the third defenseman in NHL history to record at least 13 points in his team’s first six games of the season. The others were Harry Cameron with the 1917-18 Toronto Arenas (nine goals and six assists) and Paul Reinhart of the 1989-90 Vancouver Canucks (five goals Corey Perry Jersey , nine assists).The Maple Leafs will try to keep their early-season success going, but also know that the Kings will be determined to make up for their loss Saturday.“Obviously, L.A. will be ready to go, and we’ll have to get prepared,” Babcock said after the game in Washington. “We feel good, we’ll feel good on the way home and it’s nice to have an off-day (Sunday) after a win, but we’ve got to get back at ‘er.” When the Anaheim Ducks face the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday at Honda Center, it might seem like nothing has changed since the last time they met five weeks ago.The Ducks (19-15-6) are trying to work their way out of a five-game losing streak, while the Lightning continue to wear out opposing nets and stack up victories with their high-scoring offense.The Lightning (30-7-2) have won 13 of their past 14 games (13-0-1). The last time they didn’t earn at least a point was a 3-1 loss against the visiting Ducks on Nov. 27. That was also the last time Tampa Bay has been held to fewer than three goals.Article continues below ...The Lightning had combined for 16 goals during a three-game winning streak when Anaheim arrived earlier this season. The Ducks were two days removed from a 5-2 loss at the Nashville Predators, dropping them to 5-9-4 over a five-week stretch with two goals or fewer in 13 of those games.But the Ducks scored two goals within the same minute early in the third period and held on for the much-needed win behind 34 saves from backup goalie Ryan Miller.The win was the start of a 9-1-0 surge, but the run seemed to hit a wall when the New York Rangers scored twice in the final 40 seconds of regulation in a 3-1 victory Dec. 18. The Ducks haven’t won since.After combining for four goals in the first four games of the current losing streak, Anaheim was looking good as it built a 4-2 lead with just under eight minutes remaining in the second period against the visiting Arizona Coyotes on Saturday night, but the Coyotes erased a two-goal deficit for the third time and won 5-4 in overtime.Ducks coach Randy Carlyle remains confident the Ducks have the personnel and style of play to be successful against any type of opponent.“We feel if we stick with it and stick with our template, if we can continue to play that strong forecheck and cycle down low Conor Timmins Jersey Womens , we’ll get our opportunities to score,” he said after the loss to the Coyotes. “Right now, with our lineup and the way we’re made up, we have to develop that blue-collar and stay-at-home type of defending through the middle of the ice much better than we did tonight.”The Ducks breathed a sigh of relief when goalie John Gibson was able to play against the Coyotes after leaving a 4-2 loss at the San Jose Sharks on Thursday with an upper-body injury. Miller is already out another four weeks after sustaining a knee injury earlier this month. He and Gibson have combined to give Anaheim the top save percentage in the NHL at .916.That number took a hit when Gibson gave up five goals on 30 shots against Arizona, which came in as the third-lowest scoring team in the NHL at 2.49 goals a game.Tampa Bay has shown it can give up a high volume of goals as well. Its last two opponents have scored five goals apiece, and five of the past six have scored at least three.“We’ve got to grow a little more here in that regard and not expect the track-meet game, although we can play it, but it’s not the ideal formula as we move forward,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said after a 6-5 victory against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.The Lightning’s Nikita Kucherov leads the NHL with 63 points, including six goals and 15 assists during a 10-game point streak.

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