{"id":954220,"date":"2026-11-01T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954220\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:24:12","slug":"matthews-extends-road-point-streak-to-eight-maple-leafs-hold-off-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954220\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews extends road point streak to eight, Maple Leafs hold off Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

MacEwen made it 3-1 at 12:34, when his point shot bounced out of Merilainen\u2019s glove, off the back of defenseman Luke Schenn<\/a>\u00a0and trickled in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe forechecked and we made contact on their D, and then we were quick to support it, and I think when we do that, we do that well,\u201d Toronto coach Jim Hiller said of the difference in the second period. \u201cThere are times that we just want to rush and try to score off the rush (and it\u2019s) really difficult to do in the League consistently. So, if you forecheck, you give yourself a chance and I thought we did that as well as we’ve done it all year in the second.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Maple Leafs outshot the Canucks 13-6 in the second, spending prolonged shifts controlling play in the Vancouver end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second period, we kind of took over and hemmed them in,\u201d said Stolarz. \u201cAnd as you can see, when we do that, we’re a hell of a hockey team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sasson pulled the Canucks to 3-2 at 9:27 by chipping a rebound over the right pad of Stolarz in tight after a Brendan Gallagher shot through traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Blueger, who also had an assist, scored into an empty net on a 2-on-1 pass from Nylander at 18:24 for the 4-2 final. The play started with Stolarz shooting for the empty net, only to have it bounce off a Canucks player to Nylander.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look up and the walls are clogged and you kind of see a little bit of a lane, and you’re just trying to hope to get it up,\u201d Stolarz said. \u201cYou’re just looking to get the puck out of the zone, and we have a good play and a good system with the wingers there, so luckily it went off their guy right to our guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOTES: Maple Leafs forward Jack Roslovic<\/a>\u00a0had one assist to extend his point streak to six games (10 points; three goals, seven assists). \u2026 Toronto defenseman Chris Tanev<\/a> was plus-2 with three hits and three blocked shots playing 19:21 in his first game back from an upper-body injury that caused him out to miss nine games. \u2026 Maple Leafs forward Dakota Joshua<\/a> was plus-1 with five shots and seven hits in 11:00 of ice time in his season debut after recovering from a core injury sustained late last season. \u2026 Vancouver center Jacob Quillan<\/a>\u00a0had one shot in 11:58 while making his Canucks debut in place of Filip Chytil<\/a>, who was placed on injured reserve Friday after aggravating a shoulder injury during a 3-2 loss at the San Jose Sharks on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacEwen made it 3-1 at 12:34, when his point shot bounced out of Merilainen\u2019s glove, off the back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-954220","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\/954220","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=954220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}