TORONTO MAPLE\u00a0LEAFS (2-2-0, 4 POINTS) vs. NASHVILLE (1-1-1, 3 POINTS)
October 6, 2026<\/p>\n
GAME SUMMARY<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0EVENT SUMMARY<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0FACE-OFF SUMMARY<\/a><\/p>\n PLAYER NOTES<\/p>\n John Tavares recorded his first goal of the season at the 4:56 mark of the second period. On the goal, Gavin McKenna recorded his first career NHL point (primary assist).
\nGavin McKenna became the youngest Maple Leafs player at the time of his first point since Drake Berehowsky (18 years, 280 days) on Oct. 10, 1990.
\n\u00a0Anthony Stolarz recorded a secondary assist on John Tavares\u2019 goal. The first point from a Toronto Maple Leafs goalie since Joseph Woll on Mar. 25, 2026.
\nWilliam Nylander recorded his team-leading third goal of the season on the power play.\u00a0 The goal was assisted by Auston Matthews and Kirill Marchenko at 6:58 of the second period.
\nGavin McKenna recorded his first career NHL goal \u2013 Toronto\u2019s third goal of the game, assisted by Auston Matthews and Jack Roslovic.
\nGavin McKenna (18 years, 290 days) became the ninth-youngest player in franchise history at the time of his first career NHL goal and the youngest since Luke Richardson (18 years, 204 days on Oct. 16, 1987).
\nGavin McKenna\u2019s first career goal was assisted by Auston Matthews, marking the ninth time in NHL history that a first-overall draft pick helped set up the first NHL goal of another first-overall selection. The most recent instance occurred on Oct. 11, 2023 with Taylor Hall assisting Connor Bedard\u2019s first goal.\u00a0\u00a0
\nJack Roslovic scored the game-tying goal at the 8:52 mark of the third period. Roslovic\u2019s first of the season was also his first goal as a Maple Leaf.
\nAuston Matthews scored the game winning goal in overtime with 14 seconds remaining on the clock.
\nWith the overtime goal, Auston Matthews passed Mats Sundin for the second-most overtime goals in Toronto Maple Leafs history with 15. It was also the 66th game-winning goal in Auston Matthews\u2019 career.
\nAuston Matthews tied Johnny Gaudreau for the third most overtime goals by an American player behind only J.T. Miller (17) and Max Pacioretty (16).
\nAuston Matthews recorded his 18th career four-point game and surpassed Mitch Marner for the second most in Maple Leafs history behind only Darryl Sittler (26 GP).\u00a0
\nAuston Matthews (1G, 3A), Gavin McKenna (1G, 1A), William Nylander (1G, 2A), and Jack Roslovic (1G, 1A) all recorded their first multi-point games of the season. McKenna\u2019s first of his career and Roslovic\u2019s first as a Maple Leaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO MAPLE\u00a0LEAFS (2-2-0, 4 POINTS) vs. NASHVILLE (1-1-1, 3 POINTS)October 6, 2026 GAME SUMMARY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0EVENT SUMMARY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0FACE-OFF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-923838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923838","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=923838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}