TORONTO — The ghosts of Patrick Marleau and John Tavares haunted the Sharks again.
Tavares netted a pair of goals and Marleau scored his first against his former-team as the Toronto Maple Leafs (18-8) beat the Sharks 5-3 Wednesday night.
Marleau, who left the Sharks after 19 seasons to join the Maple Leafs in July 2017, scored on the power play at 1:53 in the second, making it a 4-2 game. The goal gave him game winners against 30 different clubs, the only player in NHL history to do so.Tavares, who flirted with the Sharks in unrestricted free agency last summer before signing a seven-year, $77 million contract with Maple Leafs, scored the opening goal with the man advantage at 3:38 of the first and he found the net again in the final minute of the opening frame to give his squad a 3-1 edge.