{"id":231403,"date":"2025-10-22T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:43:08","slug":"jack-hughes-registers-hat-trick-new-jersey-devils-down-toronto-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231403\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes registers hat trick, New Jersey Devils down Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Jack Hughes<\/a> registered the third hat trick of his NHL career as the New Jersey Devils<\/a> topped the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> 5-2 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Cody Glass<\/a> and Brenden Dillon<\/a> had the other goals for New Jersey (5-1-0), which got 23 saves from Jake Allen<\/a>. Jesper Bratt<\/a> added three assists.<\/p>\n

John Tavares<\/a>, with a goal and an assist, and Matias Maccelli<\/a> replied for Toronto (3-3-1). Anthony Stolarz<\/a> stopped 30 shots. William Nylander<\/a> had two assists.<\/p>\n

Stolarz ripped his teammates following Saturday\u2019s 4-3 overtime home loss to the Seattle Kraken<\/a> on a night where Toronto did a poor job defending its crease, didn\u2019t do enough at the other end, and suffered a crucial breakdown on the extra-time winner.<\/p>\n

The Leafs led 1-0 after Tuesday\u2019s first period before giving up three goals in a span of three minutes 27 seconds early in the second. <\/p>\n

Maccelli got one back for Toronto \u2014 his first in blue and white \u2014 to make it 3-2, but Hughes restored his team\u2019s two-goal lead before the intermission before adding an empty-netter late in the third.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

Leafs: Shutdown defenceman Chris Tanev suffered an upper-body injury on a second-period penalty kill when he collided with New Jersey centre Dawson Mercer<\/a> in front.<\/p>\n

Devils: Head coach Sheldon Keefe<\/a> made his second trip back to Scotiabank with New Jersey. Keefe went 212-97-40 with Toronto from 2019 through 2024, but won just a solitary post-season series in six tries. The Leafs went 3-0-0 against the Devils last season.<\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n

Toronto challenged New Jersey\u2019s first goal for goaltender interference only to see the call on the ice stand. The Devils went on the power play with the ensuing delay-of-game penalty, and Glass made it 2-1 moments after Tanev skated off to the locker room.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

Leafs captain Auston Matthews<\/a> entered with 21 goals in 21 career games against the Devils, his highest percentage against any team. <\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Devils: Host the Minnesota Wild<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Leafs: Visit the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n

Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Jack Hughes registered the third hat trick of his NHL career as the New Jersey Devils…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-231403","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\/231403","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=231403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}