{"id":930522,"date":"2026-10-12T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930522\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:02:09","slug":"leafs-matthews-among-nhls-three-stars-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930522\/","title":{"rendered":"Leafs&#8217; Matthews among NHL&#8217;s three stars of week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews is the NHL\u2019s first star of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matthews led the league with nine points (three goals, six assists) across three games, including a pair of four-point outings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had a goal and three assists, scoring the overtime winner, in a 5-4 comeback win against Nashville last Tuesday. It was his 15th career overtime goal, good for second on the Maple Leafs all-time list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matthews closed the week with a two-goal, two-assist showing in a 6-3 win over Colorado on Saturday for his 19th career four-point game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger had a 2-0-1 record on the week, allowing just one goal on 60 shots. He opened the week with a pair of shutout wins against San Jose and Buffalo before a 2-1 shootout loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">New York Rangers left-winger Alexis Lafreniere paced the NHL with five goals, adding two assists on the week. He had his third career hat trick and second career four-point game in a win over the New York Islanders last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews is the NHL\u2019s first star of the week. Matthews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-930522","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\/930522","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=930522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}