{"id":945336,"date":"2026-10-25T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945336\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:22:09","slug":"stolarz-makes-30-saves-maple-leafs-slow-down-mcdavid-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945336\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolarz makes 30 saves, Maple Leafs slow down McDavid, Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/troy-stecher-8479442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Stecher<\/a> pushed it to 3-0 at 6:23. After hitting Marchenko with a lead pass, Stecher followed up the play and took a return feed in the slot before beating Jarry short side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, it means a lot,\u201d said Stecher, who played 79 regular-season games with the Oilers from 2024-25. \u201cPlayed parts of three (seasons) here and a couple of long playoff runs with them, and a lot of friendships on the other side. So, it was nice to get one offensively, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl cut it to 3-1 during 4-on-4 play at 19:04. He took a drop pass from McDavid and scored blocker side through a screen from above the circles.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander made it 4-1 at 5:59 of the third period when he one-timed a pass from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/darren-raddysh-8478178\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Raddysh<\/a>\u00a0at the left face-off dot for a power-play goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were just better than us,\u201d Oilers forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/zach-hyman-8475786\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Hyman<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cThey were more competitive, they won more battles. &#8230; They scored a big one when it counted to make it 4-1. We had a power play a couple times early in the game where if we get one there it maybe changes it, but they just beat us in every area today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/zack-macewen-8479772\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack MacEwen<\/a> extended it to 5-1 at 13:39. His initial shot on a rush was stopped by Jarry, but MacEwen batted the puck out of the air and over the shoulder of the goaltender.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl scored a power-play goal with a one-timer off a pass from McDavid, who was behind the net, to make it 5-2 at 16:35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Stecher pushed it to 3-0 at 6:23. After hitting Marchenko with a lead pass, Stecher followed up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-945336","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\/945336","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=945336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}