Matthews has 3 goals, Maple Leafs beat Lightning 6-2

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Tampa Bay got goals from Nikita Kucherov and Jan Rutta, and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 33 shots.

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Matthews put Toronto up 2-1 with a wrist shot from the left circle 1:46 into the second.

After Rutta scored four minutes later, the Maple Leafs took a 4-2 advantage on Matthews’ low-slot redirection with 10:03 left in the second and Kerfoot’s in-close goal 2:28 later.

Engvall opened the scoring on Toronto’s first shot 1:59 into the game.

Kucherov tied it at 1 from the left circle right off a faceoff win by Steven Stamkos at 6:24 of the first.

Stamkos had two assists. He extended his point streak to a season-high seven games (six assists, 11 points).

NUMBERS

Matthews (253) moved past Bob Pulford (251) into ninth place on Toronto’s all-time goals list. He has a point in each of his last 13 games. … Marner joined Matthews (seven games, 2018-19) as the only Toronto players to have streaks of six or more multi-point games. … Kucherov has two goals and 10 points during a five-game point streak.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Maple Leafs RW William Nylander (illness) didn’t play. … Lightning D Ryan McDonagh took part in the morning skate but sat out this sixth consecutive game with an upper-body injury.

UP NEXT

Maple Leafs: At Florida on Tuesday night.

Lightning: At Washington on Wednesday night.

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Mark Didtler, The Associated Press