{"id":950326,"date":"2026-10-29T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950326\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:38:09","slug":"maple-leafs-outlasted-by-kraken-despite-mckennas-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950326\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs outlasted by Kraken despite McKenna&#8217;s big game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Defenceman Brandon Montour scored with 34 seconds left and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/seattle-kraken\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"seattle-kraken\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> beat 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> 5-4 on Wednesday to spoil No. 1 overall pick Gavin McKenna\u2019s first two-goal game and three-point night.<\/p>\n<p>After scoring on power plays in each of the first two periods, McKenna helped set up Auston Matthews&#8217; tying goal with 1:30 remaining and goalie Sergei Bobrovsky off for an extra attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Montour then beat Bobrovsky with a slapper from the top of the right circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chandler Stephenson had a goal and an assist to help Seattle improve to 8-4-1. Ryker Evans, Berkly Catton and Josh Mahura also scored, and Philipp Grubauer made 18 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson gave Seattle a 3-2 lead on a power play at 3:33 of the second period, and assisted on Evans&#8217; goal with 9:02 left.<\/p>\n<p>McKenna has five goals in 15 games this season. Matthews has 10 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Roslovic also scored for the Maple Leafs, cutting it to 4-3 at 8:02 of the third period. Bobrovsky stopped 12 shots as Toronto dropped to 7-6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs: At San Jose on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kraken: At Calgary on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Defenceman Brandon Montour scored with 34 seconds left and the Seattle Kraken beat the Toronto Maple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-950326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950326","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=950326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}