By Joshua Clipperton
Posted November 5, 2025 9:49 pm
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TORONTO – John Tavares scored his 501st career goal in the third period as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Utah Mammoth 5-3 on Wednesday.
Matias Maccelli, with a goal and an assist against his former team, William Nylander and Auston Matthews provided the rest of the offence for Toronto (8-5-1) before Matthew Knies added an empty-netter.
Anthony Stolarz made 21 saves. Jake McCabe had two assists. Tavares and Nylander each added assists of their own for two-point nights in the Leafs’ third straight win.
Michael Carcone, Mikhail Sergachev and Dylan Guenther replied for Utah (9-5-0), which was playing the second of a back-to-back after picking up a 2-1 overtime victory against the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday. Vitek Vanecek stopped 14 shots.
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The Mammoth led 1-0 after the first period before the Leafs, who erased a three-goal deficit in Monday’s third to secure an unlikely 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins following an ugly opening 40 minutes, responded with goals from Nylander and Matthews in the second.
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Sergachev then tied it late in the period before Tavares buried the go-ahead goal in the third and Maccelli added some insurance.
Tavares was honoured before the opening faceoff after becoming the 49th player in NHL history to score 500 career regular-season goals last week.
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Leafs: Simon Benoit sat out with an illness, joining fellow defenceman Chris Tanev (upper-body injury) on the sidelines. Dakota Mermis took Benoit’s spot in the lineup.
Mammoth: Carcone’s goal in the first marked the ninth time Utah has opened the scoring this season, tied for the most in the NHL.
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Tavares snapped a 2-2 tie midway through the third when he backhanded his seventh goal of the campaign upstairs on Vanecek.
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Matthews scored his 225th career home goal to tie Dave Keon for second most in Leafs history. Darryl Sittler holds the record with 231.
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Leafs: Host the Boston Bruins on Saturday.
Mammoth: Visit the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 5, 2025.
© 2025 The Canadian Press
