{"id":169701,"date":"2025-09-26T02:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169701\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:56:16","slug":"laughtons-four-point-night-helps-leafs-to-7-2-win-over-habs-in-nhl-pre-season-action-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169701\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughton\u2019s four-point night helps Leafs to 7-2 win over Habs in NHL pre-season action \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL \u2013 Scott Laughton scored twice and added two assists to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 7-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens in NHL pre-season action on Thursday at Bell Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the game, the Canadiens announced that defencemen Kaiden Guhle and Noah Dobson were day-to-day with groin injuries. Guhle was a late scratch while Dobson left the game and did not return.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another Montreal blueliner, David Reinbacher, also left the game early. An update on his status was expected Friday.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToronto Maple Leafs left-winger Scott Laughton (24) warms up before an NHL game against the Predators on March 22, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo\/George Walker IV)<\/p>\n

Laughton opened the scoring at 4:35 of the first period and made it 2-0 when he tallied at 13:15.<\/p>\n

Montreal\u2019s Mike Matheson halved the deficit with a power-play goal at 16:26 but Bobby McMann answered 31 seconds later to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n

Patrik Laine scored a power-play goal at 5:08 of the second period before Steven Lorentz scored a pair of goals 97 seconds apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matt Benning and Ryan Tverberg tallied in the third period as the Maple Leafs pulled away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Toronto netminder Dennis Hildeby made 11 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Montreal goaltender Sam Montembeault stopped 12 shots over two periods. Jacob Fowler made six saves over 20 minutes of work.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 25, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 Scott Laughton scored twice and added two assists to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-169701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}