On February 1st the Leafs began a stretch of playing 11 of 13 games on the road. They're 8-1-1 through 10 of those games (7-1-0 on the road). Now they embark on their final 3 road games before 4 at home.
Tonight's opponent, The Golden Knights have picked a point in each of their past eight games at T-Mobile Arena (5-0-3) – tied for the League’s longest active home point streak (TBL 7-0-1).
Matthews enters tonight's game with a 10 game point streak (2G, 12A)
Only Draisaitl and Stutzle (12) have longer active streaks than Matthews.
#34 has 6G, 1A in 6 career games in Viva Las Vegas.
Interesting decision for the Leafs in net tonight. Stolarz has one career start against Vegas and that was in Dec 2021. Woll also one start against VGS, that was the Leafs shutout win back in November. Stolarz has played 20 minutes in a relief appearance in Vegas a few years ago, that's the depth of the Leafs goalies experience in Vegas.
Leafs have scored 19 goals during their four game road win streak.
Of concern is that their last two games is that they gave up two goal leads and had their result decided in OT.
Just a couple of random notes, both from the Capitals. Ovechkin 2 points shy of becoming the 11th player in NHL history with 1,600 points. Tom Wilson had his second Gordie Howe Hat-Trick of the season last time out, against Ottawa. To be clear on the GHHT. It's not that Elbows #9 had a lot of them. He gave the feat a name. Once upon a time he referred to a goal, assist, fight in a game as a "Saskatchewan Hat-Trick" and then it evolved by media to be called the GHHT. Thus endeth the lesson.
Thursday mornings column we will breakdown Leafs and Vegas result.
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