Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Jack Campbell calm, cool and collected in Leafs win
            By Neil Becker
            You can bet that Leafs Nation took a deep sigh of relief following the
            Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 Thursday night win at Scotiabank Arena against
            the Pittsburgh Penguins.
            Leafs goalie Jack Campbell, who is in the midst of a career season had a down
            month in January where he registered a .880 save percentage. The 30- year-old
            All-Star ended the month by being pulled after surrendering three goals on
            nine shots in what turned out to be a 6-4 January 31st win against the New Jersey
            Devils. He also had some recent rough games such as on February 10th when
            he allowed five goals on 26 shots in a 5-2 loss against the Calgary Flames which
            brought up the issue of possible fatigue.
            Any questions of fatigue or a goalie controversy were on Thursday night answered
            when a calm, cool, and collected Campbell made 45 saves in their win, which now
            leaves them only four points behind Atlantic Division-leading Florida Panthers.
            The Leafs, who this year were defeated twice in two games by the Penguins got
            an early jump when 21 seconds into regulation forward Auston Matthews scored
            his 33rd goal of the year on a breakaway. The goal, which now has him one behind
            Edmonton Oilers Leon Draisaitl for the league lead also extended Matthew’s point
            streak to nine games.
            Pittsburgh, who came into town riding a six-game road winning streak surrendered
            15 first period shots against Toronto but found themselves trailing only 1-0 heading
            to the second period.
            Playing in front of 8,139 fans, the Leafs, got some insurance when on the power play
            defenceman Morgan Rielly performed his best Bobby Orr imitation by skating end to end
            before scoring his sixth at the 5:31 mark of the second.
           Rielly would go on to register his second point of the night when at the 18:36 mark of
           the second he made a perfect pass on a two on one shorthanded break to forward David Kampf
           who scored the third goal.
           The Penguins staged a furious third-period push as they outshot the Leafs by a 19-8 margin
           but were frustrated continuously by Campbell. They did however get
           rewarded when veteran forward Evgeni Malkin at the 3:33 mark scored his sixth
           which came off a rebound to cut the Leafs lead to 3-1. Less than three minutes later
           Toronto added to the lead as scrappy forward Michael Bunting continued to his
           career season by scoring his 16th goal which came off a backhander to round out the
           scoring.
           The Leafs face another stiff challenge when on Saturday night they have a 7 p.m. puck
           Drop at Scotiabank Arena against the St. Louis Blues.
                             SCORING SUMMARY
          1st. PERIOD                                    PIT/TOR
    0:21 Austin Matthews (33)                      0 –   1
T.J. Brodie (9), Mitch Marner (27)
          2nd. PERIOD
    5:31 PPG- Morgan Rielly (6)                    0 –    2
    Jack Campbell (1)
         18:36 SHG- Michael Bunting (16)            0 – 3
                 3rd PERIOD                       Â
          3:33 Evgeni Malkin (6)                             1-  3
          Jeff Carter (16)
          6:06  Michael Bunting (16)                       1 –  4
          Auston Matthews (26), Mitch Marner (28)