VANCOUVER B次元官网网址� John Tavares scored two goals and added an assist at the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 Tuesday night.

Auston Matthews and Zach Hyman, into an empty net, also scored for the Leafs (15-13-4) who have won the opening two matches of a four-game road trip. Mitch Marner and Justin Holl had two assists each.

Toronto is 6-3-0 since Sheldon Keefe replaced Mike Babcock as coach.

Josh Leivo scored for the Canucks (15-12-4), who saw a two-game win streak snapped. Vancouver goaltender Jacob Markstrom stopped 22 shots.

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Toronto goalie Frederik Andersen made 38 saves, including stopping VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Brock Boeser on three breakaways, two of them in the third period.

Tavares scored his second goal at 14:58 of the third period, taking a Marner pass and ripping a shot into the upper corner of the net to make it 3-1.

Leivo, a former Maple Leaf, scored VancouverB次元官网网址檚 goal at 11:14 of the third during a goal-mouth scramble. It was his seventh of the season and fourth in his last four games.

Tavares made a nice play on the gameB次元官网网址檚 opening goal at 1:45 of the second period. The Leafs captain collected a puck off the boards behind the Canucks goal after a shot by Holl. He passed out front to an open Matthews, who scored his 19th of the season. The Leafs went ahead 2-0 with just 20 seconds left in the period when Tavares deflected a Cody Ceci shot past Markstrom.

The CanucksB次元官网网址� best scoring chance of the period came off a J.T Miller tip that a sliding Andersen got a piece of.

VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Micheal Ferland earned some loud cheers when he flattened TorontoB次元官网网址檚 Alexander Kerfoot and Ceci with bruising hits on the same shift. Ferland, who was playing in just his second game after missing 17 with a concussion, played just one shift in the second period then left the game and didnB次元官网网址檛 return.

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NOTES: There were B次元官网网址淕o Leafs GoB次元官网网址� chants at Rogers Arena before the gameB次元官网网址� VancouverB次元官网网址檚 Brandon Sutter missed his 13th game with a groin injury despite practising MondayB次元官网网址� With Markstrom back following his fatherB次元官网网址檚 funeral in Sweden, the Canucks sent goaltender Michael DiPietro to Utica of the American Hockey League on MondayB次元官网网址� It was the sixth of 17 games on Tuesday nights this season for Toronto.

Jim Morris, The Canadian Press

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