Maple Leafs goalie Murray exits with injury in loss to Red Wings

Dylan Larkin scored three times to register the second hat trick of his career and Alex Nedeljkovic made 42 saves as the visiting Detroit Red Wings defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 on Sunday night.

Calle Jarnkrok and John Tavares replied for Toronto (45-21-10).

Matt Murray allowed two goals on seven shots for the Leafs before getting injured late in the first period.

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Ilya Samsonov, who made 31 stops in Saturday's 3-0 shutout victory over the Ottawa Senators, finished with 13 saves relief in relief.

Locked into a first-round playoff matchup with the Tampa Bay Lightning and sitting in the Atlantic Division's No. 2 spot, Toronto rested star winger Mitch Marner, along with defencemen Jake McCabe and Mark Giordano.

The Wings, who are poised to miss the playoffs for the seventh straight season despite making some good strides with a young core, opened the scoring 90 seconds into the first period when Maatta scored his sixth goal of the campaign after the defenceman took advantage of a turnover and raced in on a breakaway.

Toronto centre David Kampf was then stopped on a penalty shot before Berggren fired his 14th upstairs on Murray off a broken play for a 2-1 lead.

The Leafs goaltender left the game moments later when Wings forward Lucas Raymond lost an edge and accidentally sent the 28-year-old tumbling in the crease.

Larkin would beat Samsonov with 38.2 seconds left in the period to give him a career-high 75 points on the season and a 3-1 advantage through 20 minutes.

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Nedeljkovic made 14 saves in the middle period and then smothered a Tavares effort early in the third, but the Leafs captain tipped his 33rd