{"id":528215,"date":"2026-03-11T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528215\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:27:08","slug":"canadiens-hand-maple-leafs-eighth-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528215\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens hand Maple Leafs eighth straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Kapanen scored his 20th of the season as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>\u00a0held on for a 3-1 win and handed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>\u00a0their eighth consecutive loss on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Danault also scored, while Jake Evans added an empty-net goal for Montreal (35-18-10). Jakub Dobes made 17 saves.<\/p>\n<p>William Nylander replied for struggling Toronto (27-27-11), which is on track to miss the playoffs after nine consecutive trips to the post-season.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Woll stopped 30 shots in a solid outing.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs entered the night 11 points outside the playoffs and 13 behind the Canadiens, who held the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Kapanen opened the scoring 4:46 into the first period, finishing a slick passing play with Ivan Demidov and Alex Newhook with a deke from the goal line. Demidov held off two Maple Leafs in the corner before sending the puck to Newhook, who fed Kapanen down low.<\/p>\n<p>Danault then capitalized on a fortuitous bounce to put the Canadiens up 2-0 at 14:41 as Kaiden Guhle\u2019s dump-in ricocheted off the glass and rolled in front of the Maple Leafs\u2019 net, gifting the veteran centre his fifth of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander buried his 22nd from a give-and-go with Easton Cowan, putting Toronto on the board at 14:33 in the second after Dobes\u2019 flurry of saves kept it a two-goal game with the Leafs pressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Kapanen scored his 20th of the season as the\u00a0Montreal Canadiens\u00a0held on for a 3-1 win and handed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-528215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528215","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=528215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}