Detroit (13-18-4) has misplaced 4 straight. Cam Talbot made 16 saves on 21 pictures earlier than being changed by Alex Lyon for the third interval. Lyon stopped the 2 pictures he confronted.
“From a coaching perspective, it was exciting to be back there, but we’ve got work to do – that’s fairly evident,” stated McLellan, who changed Derek Lalonde on Thursday. “This recreation permits us a street map – we all know the place we are going to start in observe tomorrow.
“You don’t have to be a hockey expert to see some of our entry coverages and D-zone parts of the play need to be fixed.”
Toronto took a 1-0 lead at 2:29 when Kampf scored his first aim of the season and forty fourth of his profession in his five hundredth NHL recreation.
Marner made it 2-0 at 8:16, one-timing Tavares’ blind between the legs cross for his eleventh aim of the season.
“The way the play developed, I was pretty sure he was going to be there,” Tavares stated. “I just wanted to make a quick play before they could reset the defense.”
Marner put Toronto forward 3-0 at 19:28, scoring off a William Nylander cross-ice cross with Lucas Raymond within the penalty field.
“It is great to get a hat trick, but the first two goals only came because of great passes from my teammates,” Marner stated. “I’m simply looking for some quiet ice and benefit from the possibilities they’re offering.”
Marner completed off his pure hat trick at 16:23 of the second interval, tipping Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s shot previous Talbot.
