{"id":211120,"date":"2025-10-14T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/211120\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:48:10","slug":"talbot-stands-tall-as-red-wings-spoil-cowans-maple-leafs-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/211120\/","title":{"rendered":"Talbot stands tall as Red Wings spoil Cowan’s Maple Leafs debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Mason Appleton scored the winner with 44.1 seconds left in regulation and Cam Talbot made 39 saves as the Detroit Red Wings<\/a> survived a blown two-goal lead in the third period to top the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> 3-2 on Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dylan Larkin and James van Riemsdyk had the other goals for Detroit (2-1-0).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matthew Knies, with a goal and an assist, and Calle Jarnkrok replied for Toronto (1-2-0). Anthony Stolarz stopped 12 shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Wings also downed the Leafs 6-3 on Saturday in a game that saw Toronto go up 2-0 early before the home side roared back and then added two late empty-net goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Detroit opened Monday’s scoring late in a sloppy first period when Larkin dug the puck out of a crowd and roofed a backhand on Stolarz just as a 5-on-3 power play expired. Van Riemsdyk then made it 2-0 early in the third on a partial breakaway, but Knies and Jarnkrok got Toronto back even before Appleton’s late heroics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fans at Scotiabank Arena were encouraged to stick around after the final buzzer to watch Game 2 of the American League Championship Series \u2014 happening just down the street at Rogers Centre \u2014 between the Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners on the videoboard above centre ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leafs: Rookie winger Easton Cowan made his NHL debut. The 20-year-old from Mount Brydges, Ont., was selected 28th overall at the 2023 draft and is viewed as the organization’s top prospect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wings: Head coach Todd McLellan’s harsh words following Thursday’s 5-1 home loss to the Montreal Canadiens to open the schedule had the desired result after picking up back-to-back victories over last season’s Atlantic Division champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Appleton scored the winner with under a minute to go after getting robbed by Stolarz earlier in the shift.<\/p>\n

Detroit winger Patrick Kane needs two points to tie former Toronto captain Mats Sundin for 31st place on the NHL’s all-time list at 1,349.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leafs: Host the Nashville Predators on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wings: Host the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Mason Appleton scored the winner with 44.1 seconds left in regulation and Cam Talbot made 39…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-211120","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\/211120","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=211120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}