Red Wings beat Maple Leafs on late Mason Appleton goal

Ted Kulfan, The Detroit News on Oct 13, 2025

Published in Hockey

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TORONTO — The Detroit Red Wings won Monday afternoon but also suffered a loss.

The Wings skated into Toronto on Canadian Thanksgiving and let a third-period lead slip away before Mason Appleton's goal with 44.1 seconds left salvaged a 3-2 victory over the Maple Leafs, completing the two-game back-to-back series sweep.

Dylan Larkin's first-period power-play goal, a third-period goal from James van Riemsdyk in his Wings debut and the goaltending of Cam Talbot carried the Wings. Talbot deserved plenty of the praise, stopping 39 shots and singlehandedly keeping the Wings in the lead.

Toronto's Matthew Knies cut the Wings' lead to 2-1 at 12:31 in the third period. Knies poked in Bobby McMann's pass through the slot past Talbot, after Talbot had made several outstanding stops earlier in the period.

Toronto outshot the Wings, 41-15.

The Leafs tied it at 2 on Calle Jarnkrok's goal at the 13:42 mark. Knies somehow found Jarnkrok while falling to the ice, and Jarnkrok snapped a shot past Talbot for his third goal in three games.

But the Wings also suffered a potentially tough loss.

Lucas Raymond left the game in the second period with an upper-body injury. Raymond was hit hard along the boards by Leafs defenseman Chris Tanev. Raymond skated to the bench but looked to be in discomfort, then went to the locker room at the next stoppage in play.

Raymond, who drew an assist on Larkin's goal, played 7 minutes, 58 seconds on 13 shifts before exiting.

Raymond scored the 99th and 100th goals of his career Saturday against Toronto.

After missing the vast majority of the exhibition season while tending to family matters, van Riemsdyk got into his first game Monday, starting on a line with Michael Rasmussen and Appleton. In the third period, van Riemsdyk stripped defenseman Brandon Carlo and raced down the ice, flipping his first goal over goaltender Anthony Stolarz.

It was somewhat fitting van Riemsdyk made his return, while returning to Toronto, where he enjoyed most of his NHL success.

"Every time I get a chance to play in (this) building, it's very nostalgic for me," van Riemsdyk said. "I really enjoyed my time there. It's just a great city and great fan base, a great building to play in. Any time you get to go in there, it's always fun. You circle it on the calendar and get excited for it."

Van Riemsdyk was excited at Sunday's practice about joining the lineup.

"This is what I love to do," van Riemsdyk said. "To go out there, and whenever that is, to join the guys and get into live action, I'm really looking forward to it. We'll see when that is.

"It's a long season, so again, the circumstances of coming in, just coming in a little later, it's always cliche but I've gotten this far, and you try to have the best day you can every day and focus on the next day and go from there. That's all you can do. I'm excited to get an opportunity to get in there with the guys."

With van Riemsdyk in the lineup, the Wings scratched Jonatan Berggren, who joined Elmer Soderblom as the Wings' healthy scratches.

The Wings' first goal was Larkin backhanding a loose puck in the slot during a scrum in front of Stolarz. Larkin's goal came moments after a two-man advantage expired, at 18:55 of the first period.

After a ragged 5-1 loss to Montreal on Thursday on opening night, the Wings largely cleaned things up in the two victories over Toronto.

"We have to fix it quick because this schedule this year we play every other day," Larkin said.

Coach Todd McLellan challenged the Wings after the opening night loss to show better game management and the Wings' largely have.

"This team knows it can play that way," McLellan said. "I believe they were all, to a man, really disappointed in what transpired (Thursday). But now, they got rewarded for fixing it and doing the work. We've got to bottle that type of game up and continue on with it."

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