Leafs maintain off Sens for 4-3 pre-season win

OTTAWA – The Toronto Maple Leafs jumped out to a 3-0 first-period lead and held on for a 4-3 victory towards the Ottawa Senators on Sunday in NHL pre-season motion at Canadian Tire Centre.

Calle Jarnkrok, Nicholas Robertson and William Villeneuve every scored within the opening interval to push the Leafs forward.

Ridly Greig put the Senators on the board 1:45 into the second earlier than Matthew Barbolini bumped Toronto’s result in 4-1 slightly below 4 minutes later.

Arthur Kaliyev, within the second, and Olle Lycksell, within the third, pulled Ottawa inside one however that was as shut as the house aspect would get.

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Vyacheslav Peksa made 16 saves on 18 photographs for Toronto, whereas Artur Akhtyamov stopped 16-of-17 photographs. Linus Ullmark gave up three targets on eight photographs within the opening interval for Ottawa, with Mads Sogaard making 11 saves on 12 photographs in aid.

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The Leafs host the Senators on Tuesday at Scotiabank Centre for the second sport of a home-and-home sequence.

Elsewhere within the NHL on Sunday:

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WILD 3 JETS 2 (OT)

WINNIPEG, Man. — Yakov Trenin’s second objective of the sport, scored at 3:59 of extra time, gave the visiting Minnesota Wild a 3-2 come-from-behind win over the Winnipeg Jets.

The Jets led 2-1 with below three minutes left within the third interval when the Wild’s Hunter Haight scored on the facility play to drive the additional interval.

Morgan Barron and Danil Zhilkin scored first-period targets for the Jets, with Samuel Fagemo helping on each.

Trenin began the comeback with a objective at 4:23 of the second interval.

Wild defenceman David Jiricek was penalized 34 seconds into extra time for tripping the Jets’ Brad Lambert however Winnipeg couldn’t convert on the facility play.

The Jets outshot the Wild 23-19, and 4-2 in extra time. Jesper Wallstedt stopped 21 of 23 photographs for the Wild, whereas Isaac Poulter stopped 9 of 11 photographs and Thomas Milic stopped seven of eight photographs for the Jets.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Sept. 21, 2025.