{"id":923866,"date":"2026-10-07T09:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923866\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:44:13","slug":"matthews-mckenna-lift-maple-leafs-to-thrilling-ot-win-over-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923866\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews, McKenna lift Maple Leafs to thrilling OT win over Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auston Matthews<\/a> scored at 4:46 of a chaotic overtime and added three assists in regulation as the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> erased a 3-0 deficit to defeat the Nashville Predators 5-4 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Matthews took a pass from William Nylander in the extra period to end a wild night at Scotiabank Arena.<\/p>\n

Nylander, No. 1 overall pick Gavin McKenna<\/a> \u2014 with his first as a professional \u2014 John Tavares and Jack Roslovic had the other goals for Toronto (2-2-0), which got 21 saves from Anthony Stolarz.<\/p>\n

McKenna also picked up an assist on Tavares’ goal for his first NHL point. Nylander chipped in two assists and Roslovic added one.<\/p>\n

Steven Stamkos scored twice to move into 17th place on the NHL’s all-time list for Nashville (1-1-1), while Nils Hoglander added two of his own. Juuse Saros made 33 stops. Filip Forsberg chipped in two assists.<\/p>\n

Stamkos opened the scoring at 7:13 of the first period on a power play after Stolarz made a couple of huge stops. Nashville doubled its lead at 9:08 when Hoglander collected a rebound off the end boards and slotted it home before making it 3-0 at 3:03 of the second on another tap-in.<\/p>\n

Tavares got Toronto going off the rush at 4:56 of the middle period \u2014 McKenna picked up the primary assist \u2014 and Nylander connected on a man advantage at 6:58 to make it 3-2. Stamkos scored his second to restore a two-goal lead at 13:30, but McKenna buried his first in the NHL just 61 seconds later.<\/p>\n

Roslovic tied things at 8:54 of the third when he went bar down on Saros to set up the late drama that included Toronto failing to connect a 3-on-0 in OT before Matthews fired past Saros for the victory.<\/p>\n

Maple Leafs: Colton Sissons played parts of 11 seasons with Nashville. The 32-year-old winger spent 2025-26 with the Vegas Golden Knights before signing with Toronto.<\/p>\n

Predators: Stamkos broke a tie with Joe Sakic and Jarome Iginla on the league’s all-time scoring list with his first-period goal \u2014 the 626th of his career \u2014 before adding another in the second. Dave Andreychuk sits 16th in NHL history with 640 career goals.<\/p>\n

McKenna took a pass from Matthews and ripped his first in the NHL upstairs on Saros at 14:31 of the second before dropping to one knee in celebration.<\/p>\n

Stamkos became the third active player to score 100 game-opening goals in his career. Alex Ovechkin leads with 154 followed by Sidney Crosby at 127.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Predators: Visit the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Maple Leafs: Visit the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auston Matthews scored at 4:46 of a chaotic overtime and added three assists in regulation as the Toronto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-923866","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\/923866","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=923866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}