{"id":930670,"date":"2026-10-12T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930670\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:02:10","slug":"maple-leafs-auston-matthews-named-nhls-first-star-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930670\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Auston Matthews named NHL&#8217;s first star of week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> captain was named the NHL&#8217;s first star of the week on Monday after collecting nine points in three games, including three goals.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews put up a pair of four-point performances in his big week as the Maple Leafs went 2-0-1. The star centre also scored the OT winner in the first game against the Nashville Predators, the 15th of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old is tied for sixth on the season with 10 points (four goals, six assists).<\/p>\n<p>Oettinger led the Stars to a 2-0-1 week of their own, allowing just one goal while stopping 59 of 60 shots against. 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>Lafreniere led the NHL with five goals during the week, helping the Rangers notch a pair of wins. 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>&#8211;with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs captain was named the NHL&#8217;s first star of the week on Monday after collecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-930670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930670","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=930670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}