Campbell gets shutout
Goalie stops 36 shots in Toronto’s victory against Philadelphia
William Nylander scored twice, Jack Campbell stopped 36 shots for his second shutout of the season, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-0 on Wednesday night.
Ondrej Kase also scored and Auston Matthews had a pair of assists for the Maple Leafs, who were without injured captain John Tavares and won for the sixth time in seven games. Campbell got his sixth career shutout.
Carter Hart finished with 30 saves for the Flyers.
Nylander made it 1-0 with 8:49 left in the second period on a fluke goal. The puck deflected off his right toe and under Hart’s right arm after Jake Muzzin’s
pass went off defenseman Travis Sanheim’s stick and high into the air near the crease. It originally was ruled no goal by the officials due to a kicking motion but overturned after video review.
Nylander fired a wrist shot from the slot on the power play that beat Hart on the blocker side and made it 2-0 at 5:09 of the third. Matthews did the work down low and got the puck to Nick Ritchie, who passed to a wide-open Nylander in the middle of the ice. Nylander tied Tavares for the team lead with his seventh goal of the season.
Kase made it 3-0 with 6:27 to play.
Notes: Anaheim Ducks general manager Bob Murray resigned a day after he was placed on administrative leave amid an investigation into his workplace conduct. Murray plans to enter a treatment program for alcohol abuse, the team and Murray said in a statement Wednesday. The 66-yearold Murray has been with the organization since 2005 and has run its
hockey operations since November 2008, the third-longest active tenure for a GM in the NHL. A person with knowledge of the Ducks’ front office told The Associated Press that the initial complaints against Murray prompting the investigation all involved verbal abuse of team employees . ... Chicago forward Brandon Hagel is expected to miss two weeks with a left shoulder injury . ... Defenseman Josh Brown became the sixth Ottawa player in the NHL’S COVID-19 protocol, with the team canceling practice for precautionary reasons.