Dakota Joshua had a goal and an assist, and Jake McCabe, Nicolas Robertson and John Tavares scored for the Maple Leafs (31-29-13), who are 3-2-1 in their past six. Mattias Macelli had two assists, and Woll also had an assist.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad scored twice, and Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and two assists for the Rangers (28-35-9), who are 0-5-1 during the losing streak. Adam Fox had two assists, and Igor Shesterkin made 14 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York was eliminated from Stanley Cup Playoff contention. It marks the second consecutive season of missing the playoffs after winning the Presidents\u2019 Trophy in 2023-24.<\/p>\n
McCabe put the Maple Leafs up 1-0 at 5:15 of the first period, collecting the rebound of Macelli’s backhander in the slot and snapping the puck past a sprawling Shesterkin.<\/p>\n
Robertson made it 2-0 at 12:08. Max Domi carried the puck through the neutral zone and slid a backhand pass to Robertson, who slid a snap shot under Shesterkin\u2019s right pad from the left circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joshua pushed the lead to 3-0 at 5:41 of the second period, burying a wrist shot from the left circle to the glove side.<\/p>\n
Lafreniere cut the deficit to 3-1 at 10:16 with a power-play goal. He accepted a J.T. Miller feed from the right corner on his backhand, switched to his forehand and flipped the puck past Woll’s blocker from in tight.<\/p>\n
Zibanejad brought New York to within 3-2 at 18:01 while on the power play. Lafreniere sent a cross-ice pass to Zibanejad in the left circle, where scored with a one-timer.<\/p>\n
Tavares made it 4-2 at 11:57 of the third period. He forced a turnover in the defensive zone, skated the length of the ice and beat Shesterkin to the far side with a wrist shot from the right circle.<\/p>\n
Zibanejad scored his second goal to make it 4-3 just 1:07 later at 13:04, lifting a backhander over Woll’s right pad as he drove the net off a saucer pass from Gabe Perrault.<\/p>\n
Adam Sykora, who was selected by the Rangers with the No. 63 pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, was minus-2 and had three shots on goal in 13:33 of ice time in his NHL debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dakota Joshua had a goal and an assist, and Jake McCabe, Nicolas Robertson and John Tavares scored for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-561170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561170","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=561170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}