{"id":950298,"date":"2026-10-29T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:10:09","slug":"recap-leafs-kraken-oct-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950298\/","title":{"rendered":"RECAP | Leafs @ Kraken | Oct. 28, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO MAPLE\u00a0LEAFS (7-6-2, 16 POINTS) vs. SEATTLE KRAKEN (8-4-1, 17 POINTS)<\/p>\n<p>October 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/GS020202.HTM\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/GS020202.HTM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GAME SUMMARY<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/ES020202.HTM\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/ES020202.HTM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EVENT SUMMARY<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/FS020202.HTM\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/htmlreports\/20262027\/FS020202.HTM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FACE-OFF SUMMARY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PLAYER NOTES<\/p>\n<p>Gavin McKenna\u00a0got Toronto on the board late in the first period with his fourth goal of the season. It was Toronto\u2019s first-of-two power play goals on the night.\u00a0<br \/>\nAuston Matthews\u00a0extended his season-opening\u00a0road\u00a0point streak to seven games and became just the second Maple Leafs player to do so over the past 35 years, following\u00a0William Nylander\u00a0(8 GP in 2023-24). The franchise record is nine games by\u00a0Harry Cameron\u00a0in 1921-22.<br \/>\nAfter an early second period goal from Seattle, Gavin McKenna\u00a0responded 90 seconds later for his second goal and second power play goal of the game.\u00a0<br \/>\nGavin McKenna\u00a0became the third different 18-year-old Maple Leafs player to score multiple goals in a game in the past 80 years, following\u00a0Vincent Damphousse\u00a0(2 on Nov. 15, 1986) and\u00a0Wendel Clark\u00a0(2 on Oct. 19 &amp; Oct. 13, 1985).\u00a0<br \/>\nGavin McKenna\u00a0(18 years, 312 days) became the youngest Maple Leafs player with a multi-goal game since\u00a0Jack Hamilton\u00a0on Feb. 19, 1944 (18 years, 262 days).\u00a0<br \/>\nGavin McKenna\u00a0(15 GP) became the 11th teenager in Maple Leafs history to record 10 career points in 15 games or fewer. Only two others have done so in the past 40 years:\u00a0Auston Matthews\u00a0(6 GP in 2016-17) and\u00a0Mitch Marner\u00a0(12 GP in 2016-17).<br \/>\nJack Roslovic\u00a0pulled the Maple Leafs within a goal in the third period scoring with the teams playing at 4-on-4.<br \/>\nAuston Matthews\u00a0scored\u00a0with 1:30 remaining in regulation with the goalie pulled for the extra attacker. Matthews\u2019 team-leading 10th goal tied the game at 4-4.\u00a0<br \/>\nGavin McKenna\u00a0(2-1\u20143) became the youngest Maple Leafs player to record a three-point game since\u00a0Ted Kennedy\u00a0had 2-1\u20143 on March 5, 1944 (18 years, 84 days).<br \/>\nAuston Matthews (1G, 2A), Gavin McKenna (2G, 1A), Darren Raddysh (2A), and Jack Roslovic (1G, 1A)\u00a0all recorded multi-point games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POINT STREAKS<\/p>\n<p>Easton Cowan\u00a0extended his point streak to five games (3-3-6) with an assist on Jack Roslovic\u2019s third period goal.\u00a0<br \/>\nAuston Matthews\u00a0recorded a three-point night to extend his point streak to three games (2-3-5) and owns a seven-game road point streak.<br \/>\nJack Roslovic\u00a0recorded a goal and an assist in tonight\u2019s game to extend his point streak to five games (3-6-9).\u00a0<br \/>\nTroy Stecher\u00a0extended his point streak to four games with an assist in tonight\u2019s game (2-2-4).<\/p>\n<p>TEAM NOTES<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs were 2-for-3 on the power play and 4-for-5 on the penalty kill. Toronto surrenders a power play goal against on the road for the third-straight game.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nToronto went 31\/59 (53%) from the dot in tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto score with the extra attacker on the road for the first time since February 25, 2026 at TBL.\u00a0<br \/>\nToronto falls to 3-3-1 on the road and 4-3-1 against Western Conference opponents.<br \/>\nToronto are 3-5-0 when their opponent scores first and 2-2-0 on the road.\u00a0<br \/>\nCurrent Streak: 2L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO MAPLE\u00a0LEAFS (7-6-2, 16 POINTS) vs. SEATTLE KRAKEN (8-4-1, 17 POINTS) October 28, 2026 GAME SUMMARY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-950298","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\/950298","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=950298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}