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Auston Matthews and John Tavares each scored two goals for the Toronto Maple Leafs in a 7-4 win against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center on Tuesday.
Matthews, who became the first player in Maple Leafs history to score in the first four games of a season, has 10 points (seven goals, three assists).
Mitchell Marner (one goal, three assists) and Morgan Rielly (four assists) each had four points for Toronto. Frederik Andersen made 30 saves to earn his 150th NHL win.
Tyler Seguin had four points (one goal, three assists), and Alexander Radulov had three (one goal, two assists) for Dallas, which was trying to win its first three games to start a season for the first time since 2010-11.
Marner gave Toronto a 1-0 lead at 9:40 of the first period, shooting a wrist shot from the slot over the blocker of Ben Bishop, who made 23 saves.
Radulov tied the game 1-1 when his wrist shot deflected off Maple Leafs defenseman Nikita Zaitsev’s left ankle at 17:23.
Matthews scored at 18:58 of the first period with a one-timer from the left face-off circle to give Toronto a 2-1 lead.
Seguin tied it 2-2 at 9:04 of the second period on a breakaway, outracing Maple Leafs defenseman Ron Hainsey.
Matthews scored the first of two Maple Leafs power-play goals at 11:59 on a wrist shot from the left point that deflected off Stars defenseman Esa Lindell to make it 3-2.
Hainsey scored from near the blue line to give Toronto a 4-2 lead at 16:00.
Tavares scored on the power play at 17:00 to make it 5-2, and Jamie Benn scored with the man-advantage at 18:02 to cut Toronto’s lead to 5-3.
John Klingberg scored on a wrist shot at 2:39 of the third period to pull Dallas within 5-4, but Tavares scored on a wraparound at 4:55 for a 6-4 Toronto lead.
Dallas pulled Bishop for the extra attacker with 4:06 left in the third period, and Connor Brown scored into the empty net at 16:40 to make it 6-4.
Tonight was the Stars third game of the season and first loss. Monty says there was plenty to learn from and build off of to keep the process moving forward. pic.twitter.com/tkW4s7vss2
— Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) October 10, 2018
The @MapleLeafs scored 7+ goals in consecutive games for the third time in the past 20 years (also Dec. 19-21, 1998 and Oct. 4-7, 2017). #NHLStats #NHLFaceoff pic.twitter.com/1mDzpg7i2U
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) October 10, 2018
Leafs offence shines big and bright in tonight’s win.
Take a look at the @OntarioLottery Game Winning Numbers from Texas.#LeafsForever #That649Feeling pic.twitter.com/LbMtHN8Bst
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) October 10, 2018
NHL's top goal scorers, the last 20 years... pretty incredible. pic.twitter.com/UimS6yrcWp
— James Mirtle (@mirtle) October 10, 2018
Morgan Rielly has established a new single-game career-high with four assists in Dallas tonight. #LeafsForever
— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) October 10, 2018
@MapleLeafs forward Par Lindholm recorded his first NHL point with an assist on Ron Hainsey's second period goal. #LeafsForever
— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) October 10, 2018