{"id":265389,"date":"2025-11-06T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/265389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:09:10","slug":"john-tavares-scores-501-mattias-maccelli-gets-two-points-in-toronto-maple-leafs-win-over-utah-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/265389\/","title":{"rendered":"John Tavares scores 501, Mattias Maccelli gets two points in Toronto Maple Leafs\u2019 win over Utah Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 John Tavares<\/a> scored his 501st career goal in the third period as the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> downed the Utah Mammoth<\/a> 5-3 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Matias Maccelli<\/a>, with a goal and an assist against his former team, William Nylander<\/a> and Auston Matthews<\/a> provided the rest of the offence for Toronto (8-5-1) before Matthew Knies<\/a> added an empty-netter. <\/p>\n

Anthony Stolarz<\/a> made 21 saves. Jake McCabe<\/a> had two assists. Tavares and Nylander each added assists of their own for two-point nights in the Leafs\u2019 third straight win. <\/p>\n

Michael Carcone<\/a>, Mikhail Sergachev<\/a> and Dylan Guenther<\/a> replied for Utah (9-5-0), which was playing the second of a back-to-back after picking up a 2-1 overtime victory against the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> on Tuesday. Vitek Vanecek stopped 14 shots.<\/p>\n

The Mammoth led 1-0 after the first period before the Leafs, who erased a three-goal deficit in Monday\u2019s third to secure an unlikely 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> following an ugly opening 40 minutes, responded with goals from Nylander and Matthews in the second.<\/p>\n

Sergachev then tied it late in the period before Tavares buried the go-ahead goal in the third and Maccelli added some insurance.<\/p>\n

Tavares was honoured before the opening faceoff after becoming the 49th player in NHL history to score 500 career regular-season goals last week.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS <\/p>\n

Leafs: Simon Benoit<\/a> sat out with an illness, joining fellow defenceman Chris Tanev<\/a> (upper-body injury) on the sidelines. Dakota Mermis<\/a> took Benoit\u2019s spot in the lineup.<\/p>\n

Mammoth: Carcone\u2019s goal in the first marked the ninth time Utah has opened the scoring this season, tied for the most in the NHL. <\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT <\/p>\n

Tavares snapped a 2-2 tie midway through the third when he backhanded his seventh goal of the campaign upstairs on Vanecek.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT <\/p>\n

Matthews scored his 225th career home goal to tie Dave Keon for second most in Leafs history. Darryl Sittler<\/a> holds the record with 231.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT <\/p>\n

Leafs: Host the Boston Bruins<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n

Mammoth: Visit the Ottawa Senators<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 5, 2025. <\/p>\n

Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 John Tavares scored his 501st career goal in the third period as the Toronto Maple Leafs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-265389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265389","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=265389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}