{"id":660915,"date":"2026-05-10T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660915\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:31:08","slug":"toronto-marlies-beat-laval-rocket-advance-to-ahl-north-division-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660915\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Marlies beat Laval Rocket, advance to AHL North Division final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have the last Canadian AHL affiliate standing in the Calder Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Marlies beat the host Laval Rocket 3-2 in a winner-take-all Game 5 of their second-round series on Saturday, sending the Leafs&#8217; farm club to the North Division final against the Cleveland Monsters.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlies fought back from a 2-1 deficit after 40 minutes against the Montreal Canadiens affiliate, getting third-period goals from Reese Johnson and Vinni Lettieri.<\/p>\n<p>Lettieri is tied for the AHL lead with five playoff goals.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Smith also scored for Toronto, while 2022 Canadiens second-round pick Owen Beck scored both goals for Laval.<\/p>\n<p>The Monsters, a Columbus Blue Jackets affiliate, host Game 1 of the best-of-five North Division final on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs have the last Canadian AHL affiliate standing in the Calder Cup Playoffs. The Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-660915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660915","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=660915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}