TORONTO MAPLE\u00a0LEAFS (5-4-2, 12 POINTS) vs. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS (3-5-0, 6 POINTS)<\/p>\n
October 20, 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 Kirill Marchenko\u00a0scored Toronto\u2019s first goal of the game at 8:16 of the first period on the power play. Marchenko tied Auston Matthews for the team lead in power play goals (3).\u00a0\u00a0
\nKirill Marchenko\u00a0became the second player in the last 20 years to record points in each of his first four road games with Toronto after Auston Matthews (4 GP in 2016-17).\u00a0
\nWilliam Nylander\u00a0gave the Maple Leafs their first lead of the night at 2:26 of the second period. His 298th career NHL goal.\u00a0
\nAuston Matthews\u00a0scored his 436th goal in his 700th career game, tying\u00a0Pavel Bure\u00a0for the sixth most by a player through the milestone contest in NHL history.\u00a0Wayne Gretzky (589), Mario Lemieux (580), Mike Bossy (542), Brett Hull (504) and Jari Kurri (454)\u00a0round out the top five.\u00a0
\nAuston Matthews\u00a0scored the 68th game-winning goal of his career.\u00a0
\nEaston Cowan\u00a0became the first Maple Leafs player age 21 or younger to score a shorthanded goal since Mitch Marner (Feb. 14, 2019).
\nOliver Ekman-Larsson\u00a0recorded his first point of the season (assist) on Easton Cowan\u2019s short-handed goal.\u00a0
\nEaston Cowan\u00a0(1-2\u20143) is the third Maple Leafs player over the past 25 years to record three points in a period at age 21 or younger, following\u00a0Mitch Marner (3x) and Auston Matthews (2x).
\nJack Roslovic\u00a0scored Toronto\u2019s fifth goal of the night against his former team and in his hometown.\u00a0
\nMarshall Rifai\u00a0scored for the Maple Leafs at 16:58 of the third period, recording the first goal of his NHL career.
\nMorgan Rielly\u00a0recorded a season-high three points (3 assists) in tonight\u2019s win over Columbus.
\nAnthony Stolarz\u00a0earned his third win of the season making 33 saves.
\nToronto had five skaters with a multi-point game tonight\u00a0(Cowan (1-2-3), Matthews (1-1-2), Nylander (1-1-2), Rielly (0-3-3), and Roslovic (1-2-3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO MAPLE\u00a0LEAFS (5-4-2, 12 POINTS) vs. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS (3-5-0, 6 POINTS) October 20, 2026 GAME SUMMARY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-940972","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\/940972","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=940972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}