Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid are making waves with their new McDonald’s commercial, which pits the Toronto Maple Leafs’ captain against the Edmonton Oilers’ superstar in a skills competition for the ages.

Nothing is owed in professional sports and the Toronto Maple Leafs had to get out of their own to record their fifth consecutive victory, stealing a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Auston Matthews and John Tavares each had a goal and ... Leafs goalie Joseph Woll made 30 saves. Travis Konecny scored both Philadelphia goals. Leafs: At age 34, Tavares is not showing signs of slowing down. He reached the 20-goal ...

Auston Matthews looked terrific in his return from a six-game injury-related absence. Matthews recorded a goal and two assists, while facilitating the best game of Matthew Knies’ young career. Matthews won puck battles,

Red-hot Matthew Knies scored the winner, deflecting a third-period shot by Morgan Rielly, and the Leafs won their fifth in a row — their longest streak of the season — to move within one point of the first-place Vegas Golden Knights (57 points) in the overall standings.

PHILADELPHIA — Auston Matthews and John Tavares each ... Leafs goalie Joseph Woll made 30 saves. Travis Konecny scored both Philadelphia goals. Leafs: At age 34, Tavares is not showing signs ...

Alex Ovechkin's OT goal was his 874th career goal, putting him 20 away away from tying Wayne Gretzky’s mark of 894.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Dylan Larkin scored two goals and the surging Detroit Red Wings beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 on Thursday night. Larkin, Jonatan Berggren and Patrick Kane had power-play goals for Detroit, which also got a goal from Marco Kasper. Cam Talbot stopped 40 shots for the Red Wings, who have won eight of their last nine games.

In the fourteenth weekly Metropolitan Division snapshot, the division had a combined four regulation losses. The Columbus Blue Jackets and New York Islanders even got hot. All this and more in this week’s snapshot.

Artemi Panarin scored twice, Chris Kreider got the go-ahead goal with 9:38 left and the New York Rangers rallied for a 5-3 victory over the Utah Hockey Club on Thursday night. Reilly Smith tied it 3-all with a short-handed goal 28 seconds into the third period for the Rangers,

Auston Matthews, despite recently returning to the lineup ... among forwards, trailing only star winger Travis Konecny and breakout 22-year-old Tyson Foerster. He is first among Flyers forwards in GAR with a 50.99% expected goals share (xGF%), 50.31% ...

Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs ... Nick Suzuki, Montreal Canadiens, C16 50. Travis Konecny, Philadelphia Flyers, RW12 51. Jake Oettinger, Dallas Stars, G4 52. Anze Kopitar, Los Angeles ...