Maple Leafs edge Penguins
ByReuters
Updated 14/10/2010 at 04:53 GMT
The Toronto Maple Leafs edged Pittsburgh 4-3 to maintain their perfect start to the season and deny the Penguins their maiden win in their new arena, the Console Energy Center.
2010-11 NHL Pittsburgh Penguins' Deryk Engelland (L) fights with Toronto Maple Leafs Colton Orr (28)
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Clarke MacArthur scored two goals, including his fourth to tie for the league lead, as the Maple Leafs scored three straight in the second period then held off the charging Penguins in the third.
"We won the game against a team that was desperate for a home win, so I'm proud of the guys," Leafs coach Ron Wilson said after his team improved to 3-0 in the season.
"They are learning how to win and learning the process."
The Penguins made 20 scoring shots to Toronto's seven in the final 40 minutes but were unable to get an equaliser past Leafs debutante Jonas Gustavsson.
"In the third we held on to a one-goal lead and that's a big thing to do, especially against a team with that firepower," said Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf.
Colton Orr gave the Leafs an early lead but goals by Chris Kunitz and Max Talbot put the Penguins ahead at the end of the first period.
Francois Beauchemin scored the other goal for Toronto and Sidney Crosby netted his first goal of the season for Pittsburgh to draw the Penguins to within one late in the second period.
Evgeni Malkin was awarded a penalty shot late in the second period just before Crosby's goal made it 4-3, but he fired the shot wide after slowly skating in on a wide arc.
"Each game that goes by, especially when you expect to win each one, it starts to get discouraging," Penguins defenseman Paul Martin said. "That's something we can't concentrate on."
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