{"id":942975,"date":"2026-10-23T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942975\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:48:09","slug":"recap-leafs-vs-rangers-oct-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942975\/","title":{"rendered":"RECAP | Leafs vs Rangers | Oct. 22, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO MAPLE\u00a0LEAFS (6-4-2, 14 POINTS) vs. NEW YORK RANGERS (7-4-1, 15 POINTS)<\/p>\n<p>October 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/GS020155.HTM\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/GS020155.HTM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GAME SUMMARY<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/ES020155.HTM\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/ES020155.HTM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EVENT SUMMARY<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/FS020155.HTM\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/FS020155.HTM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FACE-OFF SUMMARY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PLAYER NOTES<\/p>\n<p>Easton Cowan\u00a0opened the scoring 1:36 into the contest. The Maple Leafs have three goals in the opening two minutes of games this season, tied with the Rangers for the most in the NHL.\u00a0<br \/>\nTeddy Blueger\u00a0scored at 10:01 of the first period to record his first goal as a Toronto Maple Leaf. On the goal,\u00a0Brandon Duhaime\u00a0andZack MacEwen\u00a0picked up their first points as a Maple Leaf. All three linemates combined on the goal for their first points for the franchise.<br \/>\nBrandon Duhaime\u00a0tied the game at 3-3 at the 8:00 mark of the second period. His first goal for the franchise. Linemates\u00a0Teddy Blueger\u00a0and\u00a0Zack MacEwen\u00a0recorded the assists to record their first multi-point games of the season.\u00a0<br \/>\nKirill Marchenko\u00a0scored his 4th power play goal of the season which leads the team in that category. He has scored in back-to-back games and extended his point streak to three-games.\u00a0<br \/>\nGavin McKenna\u00a0and\u00a0William Nylander\u00a0picked up assists on the Marchenko power play marker.<br \/>\nTroy Stecher\u00a0scored\u00a0the winner with 28 seconds remaining in regulation. It marked Toronto\u2019s latest go-ahead goal since Nov. 13, 2021 (Morgan Rielly at 59:48).\u00a0It was the third game-winning goal of his NHL career.\u00a0<br \/>\nWith an assist on the goal,\u00a0Brandon Duhaime\u00a0set a career-high points in a game with three (1-2-3).\u00a0<br \/>\nSergei Bobrovsky\u00a0stopped 21-of-25 shots in Thursday night\u2019s win.\u00a0That was the 459th victory of Bobrovsky\u2019s career which ties him with\u00a0Henrik Lunqvist\u00a0for 6th most wins all time by an NHL goaltender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POINT STREAKS<\/p>\n<p>Auston Matthews\u00a0recorded a goal and an assist for points in back-to-back games (2-3-5).\u00a0<br \/>\nKirill Marchenko\u00a0recorded a goal against his former team and has points in back-to-back games (1-1-2).\u00a0<br \/>\nWillian Nylander\u00a0extended his point streak to three games (1-3-4) with an assist.<\/p>\n<p>TEAM NOTES<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs were 1-for-2 on the power play and 1-for-1 on the penalty kill.\u00a0<br \/>\nKirill Marchenko\u00a0scored the Maple Leafs\u2019 12th power-play goal of the season.<br \/>\nToronto have scored a power play goal in three-straight games (SJ \u2013 2, CBJ \u2013 1, NYR \u2013 1).\u00a0<br \/>\nToronto went 35\/71 (49%) from the dot in tonight\u2019s game.<br \/>\nToronto have won three-straight games and now own a home record of 4-3-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO MAPLE\u00a0LEAFS (6-4-2, 14 POINTS) vs. NEW YORK RANGERS (7-4-1, 15 POINTS) October 22, 2026 GAME SUMMARY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-942975","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\/942975","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=942975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}