The Maple Leafs now continue the five-game streak on home ice, most closely with back-to-back games against the Calgary Flames on Saturday night and the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night, before the team travels to Stockholm for the games against the Detroit Red Wings (next Friday week) and Minnesota Wild (Sunday) in Avicii Arena in Stockholm.
The audience in Stockholm can see William Nylander in a chain with John Tavares in the middle and Tyler Bertuzzi on the left wing. Nylander has scored 18 points (7+11), Tavares has 14 points (5+9) and Bertuzzi, who joined the team from Boston this season, has four points (3+1) on his account.
The matches in Stockholm are an opportunity to weld the team together even more, and to move forward with something that started so well. Like Nylander’s chain, an attacking formation that has succeeded well but has more to give.
– We try to find each other and it gets better and better; today (against Ottawa) we did well and we have to build on that. I liked how (Bertuzzi) played and how our chain played and how much we created, Nylander said.
William Nylander himself is on his way to a peak season. Last year he was noted for 87 points (40+47) in 82 games. If he continues as he started the 2023-24 season, he will take the points harvest well over 100.
In the Maple Leafs’ more than 100-year and successful history, only seven players have been recorded for a longer scoring streak: Mitchell Marner who scored in 23 straight games in the 2022-23 season, Darryl Sittler (18 games in 1977-78), Eddie Olczyk ( 18 games in 1989-90), Dave Andreychuk (16 games in 1993-94), Babe Dye (16 games in 1921-22), John Anderson (16 games in 1983-84) and Lorne Carr who scored in 14 straight games in the 1942-43 season .
Tyler Bertuzzi stroked the weight of promotion in the two games against the Flames and Canucks.
– We have to tighten it up before the matches in Sweden, he said. It feels better (with Nylander and Tavares) with each passing game; we got it together better tonight. We will continue to score goals, it is defensively we have to connect it better and play more physical, said Bertuzzi.
John Tavares was an echo of William Nylander when he explained the loss after the game. Tavares also pointed to defensive shortcomings.
2023-11-09 07:15:45
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