Auston Matthews scored against his hometown team, but the Toronto Maple Leafs still dropped their fourth straight game on home ice, a 3-2 shootout loss to the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night.
Former Leaf Peter Holland scored the shootout winner for Arizona, which won for the third time in the last four games. Holland was traded to the Coyotes last week and was facing Toronto for the first time since.
Jordan Martinook and Oliver Ekman-Larsson added goals in regulation for Arizona (10-14-6) and Mike Smith made 44 saves.
Matthews, from Scottsdale, Ariz., and a childhood Coyotes fan, was joined on the scoresheet for Toronto (12-11-6) by Mitch Marner. Frederik Andersen making 27 saves in defeat. Toronto outshot Arizona 46-30.
The Leafs finally broke through on a power play with eight seconds remaining in the first period after peppering Smith with shots through a one-sided frame.
Matthews fired from atop the right faceoff circle — a Tyler Bozak screen helping the shot beat the Coyotes' 34-year-old netminder from Kingston, Ont. It was the eighth goal in the last 10 games for Matthews and 14th of the year, upping his team lead in that category.
Peter Holland burns Maple Leafs in shootout
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