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Maple Leafs Defeat Pens, 5-2

Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Justin Schultz (4) chips the puck past Toronto Maple Leafs center Leo Komarov (47) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, March 10, 2018, in Toronto. (Jon Blacker/The Canadian Press via AP)

TORONTO (AP) — Nazem Kadri scored twice and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 Saturday night to snap a four-game losing streak.

Kasperi Kapanen, Mitch Marner and Patrick Marleau also scored to help the Maple Leafs get their franchise-record 10th straight home win. Frederik Andersen, appearing in his 57th game this season, stopped 38 shots.

Sidney Crosby and Patrick Hornqvist scored for the Penguins, who had won three straight and nine of their last 12.

Andersen had a shutout going until Crosby got his 23rd of the season with 3:36 remaining with a backhander thatn went in off Toronto defenseman Ron Hainsey’s stick to make it 4-1. It was Crosby’s 26th career goal and 57th point against the Maple Leafs.

Hornqvist then tipped Evgeni Malkin’s shot from the point with 2:28 to go. Malking got his 40th assist and 59th point against Toronto.

Marleau added an empty-netter with 58 seconds left to close the scoring.

The Maple Leafs, who had won 13 of 15 games before their four-game road slide, led 3-0 on nine shots midway through the game.

Toronto looked sluggish to start. Pittsburgh bottled the Leafs up in their end and outshot them 6-0 in the first four minutes. It took Toronto 5 1/2 minutes to register a shot on goal and that was a clearance during a penalty kill.

Toronto went ahead at 9:10 on a pretty goal by Kapanen that started with a no-look pass from Josh Leivo from behind the goal to Tyler Bozak. He slid the puck over to Kapanen, who buried it.

Kadri made it 2-0, tipping in Morgan Rielly’s shot with 47 seconds remaining in the period.

The Leafs didn’t put a shot on goal for the first 11 minutes of the second period but took advantage of the power play at 11:35. Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry stopped Marner’s shot from the point but gave up a rebound that went straight to Kadri for his second.

Kadri now has 26 goals on the season, an amazing turnaround for a player who went 0-for-December. His Jan. 4 goal against San Jose ended a 12-game scoring slump dating back to Nov. 30. The 27-year-old center, who had a career-high 32 goals in 82 games last season, notched his sixth multi-goal game of the campaign.

Brian Dumoulin’s goal for Pittsburgh with two minutes left in the second was waved off for goalie interference as the Penguins’ defenseman, who was pushed into the crease by Hainsey, caught Andersen’s head with his arm as he went across goal before stuffing the puck in.

Marner scored on a deflected shot from the blue line on the ensuing power play, rubbing salt in the wound. It was his 19th of the season, matching his rookie total last year.

Jarry, who had won his last three starts, gave up four goals on 16 shots through two periods before giving way to Casey DeSmith, to start the third.

FLYERS 2, JETS 1

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Claude Giroux and Andrew MacDonald scored in the second period and the Philadelphia Flyers overcame Patrik Laine’s 40th goal of the season in a victory over the Winnipeg Jets that snapped a five-game losing streak.

BRUINS 7

BLACKHAWKS 4

BOSTON (AP) — Brian Gionta and Rick Nash each scored a power-play goal and Boston completed a 6-0-0 homestand.

Gionta and Nash got their goals during a double-minor penalty on Chicago’s Patrick Kane.

LIGHTNING 3

CANADIENS 2, SO

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored the deciding goal in the fourth round of the shootout, lifting Tampa Bay past Montreal.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2 SABRES 1, SO

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Erik Haula scored the decisive shootout goal and Vegas set an NHL record for road victories by an expansion team.

AVALANCHE 5

COYOTES 2

DENVER (AP) — Blake Comeau and Carl Soderberg each had a goal and an assist in a first-period burst, and Colorado goalie Jonathan Bernier won his ninth straight home game but left in the third period for an undisclosed reason.

CAPITALS 2, SHARKS 0

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves for his fifth career shutout and Nicklas Backstrom scored late in the second period to help Washington salvage the final game of its California swing.

BLUES 7, KINGS 2

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The struggling St. Louis Blues got goals from seven players and handed Los Angeles its worst defeat of the season.

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