William Nylander’s ‘superpower’ erases own goal, gives Maple Leafs relief win

TORONTO — When the sky is falling, William Nylander casually picks up the globe and turns it upside-down.

There.

Fixed it.

Feels more than fitting, then, that the guy who came thisclose to nudging the Toronto Maple Leafs toward a sixth consecutive loss — for the first time since the lads were trying to get Mike Babcock fired, no less — was the same guy who put a dazzling Gotta See It™ finish on Tuesday’s skid-stopping overtime winner over the St. Louis Blues.

Nylander, we’ll remind you, entered this oddly pressure-packed mid-November Desperation Bowl between the NHL’s two most disappointing teams in their respective conference after getting chewed out by his coach in practice and failing to register a shot in consecutive games for the first time since that tumultuous winter of 2019.

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