Toronto beat Ottawa twice in NHL pre-season games
Toronto won 6-1 at home and 4-2 in Ottawa in simultaneous pre-season games with mixed line-ups; Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 13 of 14 shots in the win at home.
Toronto defeated Ottawa in two pre-season games, winning 6-1 at home and 4-2 in Ottawa. Both sides used mixed line-ups.
The 6-1 win at Scotiabank Arena began badly. Tim Stutzle put Ottawa ahead on 7 minutes, and Jake McCabe levelled on 8. Auston Matthews' side went in front through Tavares on 20 minutes, then ran riot in the second period, adding goals from Roslovic (on the power play), McEwen and Reilly. Matthews scored the sixth on 47 minutes.
Sergei Bobrovsky, Toronto's Russian goalkeeper, stopped 13 of 14 shots. Ottawa used two goalkeepers: Merilainen saved 21 of 27 and Parsons 9 of 9.
The game at Canadian Tire Centre was tighter. Rybinski gave Toronto the lead on 24 minutes with a power-play goal, and Cozens equalised on 27. Lorenz restored Toronto's lead on 51 minutes, and Stanley made it 2-2 within the same minute. Tverberg made it 3-2 on 56 minutes. Blugers sealed it with an empty-net goal on 60 minutes. Ullmark made 20 saves on 23 shots for Ottawa and Stolarz 19 on 21 for Toronto.
Both results came against Ottawa sides that were not full strength, so they say little about the regular-season order. If Bobrovsky keeps his place in the Toronto crease through the remaining exhibition games, it would suggest the coaching staff has settled on its number one.
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