The Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs face-off for the first time this NHL preseason on Thursday night.
The Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs are both playing well going into this Thursday night preseason matchup. These Original 6 teams are 3-1-1 and 2-1-1, respectively. Toronto is going for its third win in a row tonight after beating the Montreal Canadiens in a home-and-home series. Before that, the Maple Leafs lost back-to-back games in a home-and-home series against the Ottawa Senators. Toronto first played Montreal at home and beat the Canadiens 2-1.
Then the Maple Leafs went on the road to play the second game against the Canadiens and came away with the same result, winning 2-1. Toronto won despite only registering 22 shots. Dennis Hildeby was great in net stopping 26 shots and earning the second star of the game. But it was Nicholas Robertson who was the biggest star of the night. He scored both goals for Toronto with the first one coming on the power play in the first period. No one scored in the second and Robertson came in with the insurance scoring early in the third. It was much needed too because Kirby Dach brought Montreal within a goal. But it came with just less than two minutes left in the game and it was too little, too late for Montreal.
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Game Date: Oct. 3, 2024
Game Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
TV Channel: Bally Sports Detroit – BSD
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Detroit is also coming off a 2-1 win of its own against the Pittsburgh Penguins, which has to be one of the most improbable wins of the preseason. Detroit goalie Ville Husso was easily the biggest star of the night because Detroit was heavily outshot 44-19. Rickard Rakell of the Penguins scored the first goal of the game early in the second, but the Red Wings responded just over a minute later with their first goal scored by Amadeus Lombardi.
The game was tied well into the third period when Nate Danielson scored the game winner. We might be in for another goalie showdown here tonight in Detroit.
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