{"id":216485,"date":"2026-03-12T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216485\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:39:06","slug":"game-day-vs-anaheim-mar-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216485\/","title":{"rendered":"GAME DAY vs ANAHEIM &#8211; Mar. 12, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY\u2019S MATCHUP<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs are facing off against the Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p>tonight at Scotiabank Arena in the first of two games between<\/p>\n<p>the clubs this season. The Maple Leafs posted a 2-0-0 record<\/p>\n<p>against the Ducks during the 2024-25 season and have earned<\/p>\n<p>a point in eight-consecutive games (7-0-1). The team has posted<\/p>\n<p>a 16-11-7 record on home ice this season.<\/p>\n<p>LAST GAME<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs lost 3-1 against the Montr\u00e9al Canadiens on<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night at Bell Centre. William Nylander scored for the<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs at 14:33 of the second period, posting his 22nd<\/p>\n<p>goal of the season. Nylander is currently on a six-game point<\/p>\n<p>streak where he has recorded six points (4G, 2A). With his goal,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNylander boosted his career totals against Montreal to 21-<\/p>\n<p>17\u201438 (40 GP). His 21 career goals against the Canadiens are<\/p>\n<p>his most against a single opponent and five more than the next<\/p>\n<p>closest (16 vs. OTT),\u201d per NHL Stats. Easton Cowan registered<\/p>\n<p>the lone assist on Nylander\u2019s goal, posting his 12th assist of the<\/p>\n<p>season. Cowan has recorded three points (1G, 2A) in his last four<\/p>\n<p>games. Bo Groulx skated in his Maple Leafs debut on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>and recorded two shots and a team-leading six hits in 14:13 of ice<\/p>\n<p>time. Groulx also set a new single-game NHL career-high with<\/p>\n<p>six hits registered. Joseph Woll stopped 30 of 32 shots he faced<\/p>\n<p>in Tuesday\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TODAY\u2019S MATCHUP The Maple Leafs are facing off against the Anaheim Ducks tonight at Scotiabank Arena in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-216485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}