{"id":953934,"date":"2026-11-01T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953934\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:20:09","slug":"no-halloween-treats-for-canucks-who-fall-4-2-to-visiting-toronto-maple-leafs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953934\/","title":{"rendered":"No Halloween treats for Canucks, who fall 4-2 to visiting Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Nylander and Teddy Blueger each had a goal and an assist, helping the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks in NHL action on Halloween night at Rogers Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Auston Matthews and Zack MacEwen also scored for the Leafs (8-6-2), with Anthony Stolarz making 27 saves for the goaltending win.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Boeser and Max Sasson replied for Vancouver (3-12-1). Leevi Merilainen took the loss in net, stopping 24 or 27 shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs opened the scoring just 83 seconds into the contest, when Nylander broke free and slotted a backhand past Merilainen for his 10th goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver pulled even on the power play at 10:30 of the first period, when Boeser sprung free and beat Stolarz with a nifty deke. Boeser has five goals on the year. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ending Brocktober in style. \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8 https:\/\/t.co\/PFuW9fA25l<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Canucks\/status\/2116676229613166875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shots after one period favoured the Canucks, 13-9.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto captain Matthews restored the one-goal lead at 3:47 of the second, sniping his 11th of the year from a sharp angle to the left of Merilainen. <\/p>\n<p>At 12:34, former Canuck MacEwen made it 3-1, when his long shot went in off Merilainen\u2019s glove. MacEwen now has two goals on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs outshot the Canucks 13-6 in the middle frame.<\/p>\n<p>Sasson drew the Canucks within one at 9:27 of the third, knocking home a rebound from a Brendan Gallagher shot for his fourth of the year. <\/p>\n<p>Blueger, another former Canuck, put things out of reach with an empty-net goal at 18:23, his second marker of the year. <\/p>\n<p>Vancouver hosts the Anaheim Ducks Tuesday (7 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: Vancouver was without injured forward Filip Chytil (shoulder) and goalie Thatcher Demko (hip)\u2026 Sporadic \u2018Go Leafs Go\u2019 chants broke out throughout the contest\u2026 Vancouver was 1-for-4 on the power play, while the Leafs were 0-for-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Nylander and Teddy Blueger each had a goal and an assist, helping the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[903,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-953934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953934","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=953934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}