{"id":950741,"date":"2026-10-29T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950741\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:38:09","slug":"it-definitely-stings-toronto-maple-leafs-score-6-on-5-only-to-give-up-gwg-with-32-seconds-left-vs-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950741\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It definitely stings\u2019: Toronto Maple Leafs score 6-on-5 only to give up GWG with 32 seconds left vs. Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> appeared to have forced overtime on Wednesday as Auston Matthews<\/a> scored a six-on-five goal with 90 seconds left to tie the Seattle Kraken<\/a> at 4-4.<\/p>\n

However, just over a minute later, Kraken defenceman Brandon Montour<\/a> beat Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a> with a slap shot with just 32.7 seconds left on the clock to lock up a regulation win for his side.<\/p>\n

Bobrovsky struggled for the Maple Leafs on Wednesday, allowing five goals on 17 shots to fall to 3-5-2 on the early season after inking a three-year, $21 million contract in July. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought he was all right,\u201d Maple Leafs head coach Jim Hiller said of Bobrovsky\u2019s performance. \u201cThe last one he probably would want that one back, but one goes off a toe, one goes off a stick. That part of it, he can\u2019t do much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a breakdown, and they\u2019re coming down the (outside) lane,\u201d Matthews explained of the costly final goal. \u201cA pretty good D-man takes a slap shot right at our goalie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toronto entered the third period down 4-2 but clawed back to tie the game and appeared on track to earn a point. The loss put a damper on an impressive night for rookie Gavin McKenna<\/a>, who had two power-play goals and an assist as he moved up to the top line alongside Matthews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we played a hard third period,\u201d McKenna said. \u201cThat\u2019s a good team over there, and I thought both teams played good games, and it comes down to the last 30 seconds. So it\u2019s a frustrating one, but that\u2019s one we definitely want back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough,\u201d Matthews added of the defeat. \u201cI think despite not being that pretty of a game, you work so hard to get yourself back in it and tie the game up and hopefully come out of here with at least one point. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely stings, but I think there\u2019s nothing we can do now. We\u2019ve got to play one more game here on this road trip and do our best to come out of there with two points.\u201d <\/p>\n

McKenna got a look on the top line the with Matthews and Jack Roslovic, who scored his sixth goal of the season Wednesday, as the Maple Leafs shuffled their forwards in the wake of Kirill Marchenko<\/a> being ruled week-to-week with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

Hiller said he wasn\u2019t overly impressed by the line at five-on-five, but was liked their performance on the power play, which went two-for-three.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the power play, for sure,\u201d Hiller responded on if even he saw chemistry between McKenna and Matthews. \u201cAt 5-on-5, I didn\u2019t think they did all that much, to be honest with you. But definitely on the power play, and then 6-on-5\u2026 Beautiful goals on the power play, no question.\u201d <\/p>\n

McKenna was more positive as he reflected on their first game playing together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when you\u2019re playing with a guy like (Matthews), it makes it pretty easy,\u201d McKenna said. \u201cHe\u2019s an unbelievable player, he sees the ice really well. I think teams favor him a little bit with his shot, and it might open up a little bit of space for me. So he\u2019s fun to play with, and I thought we played well.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Maple Leafs, who dropped to 7-6-2 with the loss to the Kraken, will close out their western road trip on Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs appeared to have forced overtime on Wednesday as Auston Matthews scored a six-on-five goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,81998,49,48,309249,448,83996,82,74650],"class_list":["post-950741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-auston-matthews-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8479318","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gavin-mckenna-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8486067","tag-nhl","tag-sergei-bobrovsky-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8475683","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950741","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=950741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}