{"id":321921,"date":"2025-12-03T03:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321921\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:52:07","slug":"depth-scoring-leads-maple-leafs-past-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321921\/","title":{"rendered":"Depth scoring leads Maple Leafs past Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/bobby-mcmann\/f72a50d9-433a-4cad-babb-b481861f0d43\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"f72a50d9-433a-4cad-babb-b481861f0d43\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bobby McMann<\/a> had two assists for the Leafs, who have won three of their last four, and John Tavares added an empty-netter with 18.6 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Reinhart got his 14th of the season, a short-handed score in the second period for Florida. But Laughton scored with 7:42 left to restore the two-goal edge for the Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>Florida has lost four of its last five, and four straight at home.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first Florida-Toronto game since the second round of last season&#8217;s playoffs, a series where the Maple Leafs took the first two games and held leads of 2-0 and 3-1 in Game 3 \u2014 before losing that game on a goal by Brad Marchand in overtime. Florida would roll to wins in Games 5 and 7 in Toronto, both by 6-1 scores, and went on to capture its second consecutive Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>But this Florida roster looked a whole lot different than the one last spring did.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers were again without their long-term injured players \u2014 Aleksander Barkov, Matthew Tkachuk, Dmitry Kulikov, Eetu Luostarinen and Tomas Nosek among them \u2014 plus were without forward Carter Verhaeghe, who missed the game because he and his wife were expecting a baby.<\/p>\n<p>It meant Florida added Jack Studnicka to its fourth line. Studnicka was making his Panthers debut and playing an NHL game for the first time since April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs: Visit Carolina on Thursday, the end of a six-game road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers: Host Nashville on Thursday, the fourth game of a six-game homestand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bobby McMann had two assists for the Leafs, who have won three of their last four, and John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-321921","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\/321921","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=321921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}