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<\/p>\nSteven Lorentz replied for Toronto (29-28-12). Joseph Woll stopped 31 shots.<\/p>\n
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The Maple Leafs are now 2-1-1 since losing captain Auston Matthews for the season to a knee injury \u2014 a run on the heels of a head-scratching 0-6-2 slide that all but cratered their playoff hopes.<\/p>\n
TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n
Islanders: Matthew Schaefer picked up an assist to move within one point of becoming the fourth rookie defenceman in franchise history to register 50 in a season. The 18-year-old from Hamilton is looking to join Stefan Persson (56 in 1977-78), Denis Potvin (54 in 1973-74) and Vladimir Malakhov (52 in 1992-93). <\/p>\n
Maple Leafs: The club wore its green and white Toronto St. Pats jerseys \u2014 on St. Patrick\u2019s Day \u2014 in honour of the club\u2019s Irish roots. The franchise was known as the St. Pats from 1919 through 1927.<\/p>\n
KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n
A couple of early power plays pushed the visitors ahead. Schenn scored on the game\u2019s first man-advantage opportunity at 4:15 of the opening period. Ritchie, a rookie forward from nearby Oakville, Ont., like Schaefer making his Scotiabank Arena debut, then doubled his team\u2019s lead before the game was 10 minutes old.<\/p>\n
KEY STAT<\/p>\n
Toronto entered Tuesday with the NHL\u2019s third-best penalty kill at 83.5 per cent. New York\u2019s power play sat 29th overall at 15.9 per cent.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Islanders: Visit the Ottawa Senators on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Maple Leafs: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday. <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 17, 2026.<\/p>\n
Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Lorentz replied for Toronto (29-28-12). Joseph Woll stopped 31 shots. The Maple Leafs are now 2-1-1 since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,3302],"class_list":["post-543687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543687","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=543687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}