{"id":528503,"date":"2026-03-11T06:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:31:12","slug":"canadiens-build-early-lead-hand-maple-leafs-8th-loss-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528503\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens build early lead, hand Maple Leafs 8th loss in row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/william-nylander-8477939\" title=\"William Nylander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Nylander<\/a> scored and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joseph-woll-8479361\" title=\"Joseph Woll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Woll<\/a>\u00a0made 30 saves for Toronto (27-27-11), which is on a 0-6-2 skid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of losses in a row now,\u201d Nylander said. \u201cI think parts of all the games we\u2019ve been playing, we\u2019ve been playing snippets of good hockey, and that\u2019s not how we want to play. We want to play a full game of good hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montreal outshot Toronto 33-18, including 18-5 while taking a 2-0 lead in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey definitely had the play in the first for sure, had the puck,\u201d Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube said. \u201cYou know, we didn\u2019t check it off them, and then when we did, we didn\u2019t do anything with the puck. We couldn\u2019t get up the ice as a five-man unit and create anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kapanen put Montreal up 1-0 at 4:46. After helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ivan-demidov-8484984\" title=\"Ivan Demidov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Demidov<\/a> win a puck battle in the left corner, he went to the left of the net to take a pass from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-newhook-8481618\" title=\"Alex Newhook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Newhook<\/a>\u00a0before spinning to his right and putting a snap shot between Woll\u2019s pads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was in his spot, so we just tried to find each other and help each other out,\u201d Demidov said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Nylander scored and Joseph Woll\u00a0made 30 saves for Toronto (27-27-11), which is on a 0-6-2 skid. \u201cIt\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-528503","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\/528503","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=528503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}