{"id":214132,"date":"2025-10-15T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214132\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:12:09","slug":"matthews-scores-2-maple-leafs-hand-predators-1st-regulation-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214132\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews scores 2, Maple Leafs hand Predators 1st regulation loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a>, John Tavares<\/a> and William Nylander<\/a> each had a goal and two assists, and Matthew Knies<\/a> had three assists for the Maple Leafs (2-2-0), who lost consecutive games to the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday and Monday. Cayden Primeau<\/a> made 27 saves in his Toronto debut.<\/p>\n

Michael McCarron<\/a>, Erik Haula<\/a>, Roman Josi<\/a> and Nick Perbix<\/a> scored, and Justus Annunen<\/a> made 22 saves in his season debut for the Predators (2-1-1), who defeated the Ottawa Senators 4-1 on Monday.<\/p>\n

Tavares put Toronto up 3-2 at 8:49 of the second period when he jammed in a loose puck at the top of the goal crease off a rebound from Nylander\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n

Bobby McMann<\/a>, who hit the goal post on a breakaway earlier in the second period, made it 4-2 at 16:24 when his shot at the bottom of the right face-off circle went off Brady Skjei<\/a>\u2019s stick and between Annunen\u2019s left pad and the post.<\/p>\n

Matthews stretched it to 5-2 at 10:42 of the third period when he took a pass on a give-and-go with Knies and shot from below the right hashmarks past Annunen\u2019s outstretched right pad. Easton Cowan<\/a> had a secondary assist for his first NHL point.<\/p>\n

Josi cut it to 5-3 at 16:06 when he shot from the blue line past a screened Primeau.<\/p>\n

Matthews shot into an empty net at 16:50 to make it 6-3 before Nick Perbix cut it to 6-4 at 18:49.<\/p>\n

Nylander added another empty net goal at 19:34 for the 7-4 final.<\/p>\n

The Maple Leafs went up 1-0 at 8:42 of the first period when McCabe\u2019s shot from the blue line deflected off Erik Haula\u2019s hip at the top of the left face-off circle.<\/p>\n

Ekman-Larsson made it 2-0 at 13:34 when he took a pass just inside the blue line from Nylander and had his shot from the top of the right circle inadvertently redirected by Ozzy Wiesblatt<\/a> at the top of the goal crease.<\/p>\n

McCarron cut it to 2-1 at 3:21 of the second period when he jammed in a loose puck behind Primeau that trickled loose from Skjei\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n

Haula tied it 2-2 at 4:05. After Wiesblatt stole the puck from Chris Tanev<\/a> behind the net, he found Haula, who shot from the bottom of the right circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Ekman-Larsson, John Tavares and William Nylander each had a goal and two assists, and Matthew Knies had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-214132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}