A most productive weekend for the Leafs as they swept it. Third time this season they've swept games on back to back nights. The four points put the Leafs back on top in the Atlantic, 1 point up on hurting Panthers.
Nick Robertson had a pair for the Leafs. While brother Jason had a hat-trick for Dallas. First set of brothers with multi goal games on the same day since Pavel and Valeri on March 1, 2000.
The win by the Leafs snapped their skid in Chicago, Toronto's first regulation windy city win since Feb, 2003.
Toronto has a day off today while travelling to Boston. I will have a Leafs/Bruins preview column on Tuesday morning.
Last night was game 1 of a four game road trip for Toronto.
Leafs are 10-3-0 on the road since Dec 18, which is the best away record in the NHL in that span (.769).
Matthews has a 6 game point streak (1G, 8A). The one goal came on Saturday night into an empty net. Matthews hasn't scored on a goalie in his last 8 NHL games (11 if you count 4 Nations). It's not from a lack of shooting, he has 33 shots on goal in the 8 games.
Toronto has won 5 out of their past 6 games, allowing 3 or fewer goals in each of the 6 games.
Another great day for the great 8
Ovechkin picked up his 32nd career hat trick – and first against the Oilers – and tied Phil Esposito for the fifth most in NHL history behind Gretzky (50), Mario Lemieux (40), Mike Bossy (39) and Brett Hull (33). Ovechkin now has a hat trick against 20 different franchises, which is tied with Hull for the most in NHL history.
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