New York. Eric Calgren saved Toronto again last night.
He stopped 29 of 30 shots as the Blue and White Leafs finished off the most successful weekend of the season with a 3-1 win away to the Carolina Hurricanes.
Perhaps it was the weekend when the newly struggling Maple Leafs changed their season once and for all.
They beat league leaders Boston last Saturday night and less than a day later beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-1 away.
Both times, Eric Calgren – the Swede who will represent the club’s third goal – played a major role in the outcome.
Last Saturday, he was abruptly forced to jump when Ilya Samsonov injured his knee and stuck hard against the stalking Bruins – and in last night’s rally, he started, because base guard Matt Murray was also thought to be injured. And things went great again. Hurricanes already took the lead in the first period, but then the 26-year-old Stockholmer closed the store – at the same time that his colleagues gained the right momentum in the attack.
Yarncrück equalized in the second half after preliminary work by Pierre Engvall, and John Tavares scored 2-1 in the third and at the end William Nylander Also elegantly 3-1 on his old friend Fredrik Andersen.
In New York, the Rangers had a successful first period against Detroit and took a 2-0 lead – after Mika Zibanijad put another one of his patented direct shots into the power game.
But then the home team stopped playing, allowed the red wings to catch up and in a strong match in overtime, Dominic Kopalek decided.