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- Published: Dec. 29, 2025, 1:01 p.m.
DETROIT – The Toronto Maple Leafs tormented nan Detroit Red Wings not excessively agelong ago, but nan tide is turning.
The Red Wings defeated nan Leafs 3-2 Sunday connected Simon Edvinsson’s overtime goal to amended to 3-0 against their longtime Original Six rival this season. They meet erstwhile more, Jan. 21 successful Toronto.
This is nan Red Wings’ first three-game winning streak against Toronto since 2014 and nan first clip they’ve beaten nan Leafs 3 times successful 1 play since 1995-96 erstwhile they went 5-0 vs. Toronto.
Games against an Atlantic Division rival you mightiness beryllium competing pinch for a playoff spot return connected added significance.
“We judge that you person to triumph your play series, particularly against teams successful your ain division, convention arsenic well, but surely division,” Red Wings coach Todd McLellan said. “We really talked astir that. We’re guaranteed to triumph that series. We’d for illustration to return much points, but we’re guaranteed to triumph that one. They each count astatine nan end. And that’s a squad that we and everybody other successful this convention will beryllium fighting for positioning successful April.”
The Red Wings (23-14-3) lead nan section and are tied for nan Eastern Conference lead pinch Carolina pinch 49 points. They scope nan midway people of nan season, their 41st game, Wednesday against nan Winnipeg Jets successful their accepted New Year’s Eve crippled (6:30, FanDuel Sports Network).
“When you look astatine nan standings and who you size up against and who you request to beryllium above, you person a play bid pinch everyone and Todd mentioned it earlier and evidently we put a stranglehold connected that (series),” Mason Appleton said. “There’s different bid we’re down successful and others we’re ahead. It’s a bully small measurement to look astatine it passim nan people of an 82-game season.”
The Red Wings haven’t vanished up of nan Leafs since nan 2015-16 season, which was nan past clip Detroit reached nan playoffs and Toronto missed.
The Red Wings are 8-3-1 successful their past 12 vs. nan Leafs. Toronto had won nan erstwhile 9 meetings pinch Detroit and was 18-1-2 against nan Red Wings earlier this bid shifted.
“Huge,” Edvinsson said. “To expanse them it’s going to return a batch more. We’re going to request to triumph a batch much games, and I deliberation we’re halfway done nan play and we’re successful a bully spot, but we request to support going.”
Van Riemsdyk update
James van Riemsdyk has missed nan first 2 games pursuing nan break aft being deed pinch a changeable past Tuesday against Dallas.
“Hopefully we tin get him connected nan crystal tomorrow and tin get him skating, but he needs his legs, obviously, to do his job,” McLellan said. “And that changeable sewage him successful a bad spot.”
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