{"id":217518,"date":"2026-03-13T03:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217518\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:35:13","slug":"maple-leafs-shine-on-special-teams-surge-past-ducks-to-end-8-game-skid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217518\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs shine on special teams, surge past Ducks to end 8-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews<\/a>\u00a0scored to end a 12-game goal drought before leaving the game<\/a> at 15:47 of the second period after taking a knee-on-knee hit in the slot from Ducks captain Radko Gudas<\/a>, who was assessed a major penalty for kneeing and a game misconduct. Matthews, who tried to sidestep the hit from Gudas, remained on the ice for about a minute and left with the help of a trainer and teammate Brandon Carlo<\/a>, putting minimal weight on his left leg.<\/p>\n

William Nylander<\/a> scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period, and Matias Maccelli<\/a> had a goal and two assists for the Maple Leafs (28-27-11), who were 0-6-2 in their past eight games. It was their first home win since Jan. 10, having also gone 0-6-2 in their past eight home games. Joseph Woll<\/a>\u00a0made 36 saves.<\/p>\n

Cutter Gauthier<\/a>, Ian Moore<\/a> and Pavel Mintyukov<\/a> scored for the Ducks (36-26-3), who had won eight of their past 10 and 15 of 19. Lukas Dostal<\/a>\u00a0made 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Matthews cut it to 3-2 at 10:47 on the power play after one-timing a pass from Knies at the right face-off dot.<\/p>\n

John Tavares<\/a> tied it 3-3 on the power play at 16:26 after Gudas\u2019 major penalty. He jammed in a rebound at the top of the goal crease after Maccelli swung a shot towards the net from the bottom of the right face-off circle.<\/p>\n

Nylander\u2019s power-play goal then gave the Maple Leafs a 4-3 lead 36 seconds into the third for Toronto\u2019s second goal with the man-advantage following Gudas\u2019 penalty. After Knies\u2019 shot was partially blocked by Jackson LaCombe<\/a>, Nylander corralled the puck with his skate at the side of the goal crease and shot past a sprawling Dostal.<\/p>\n

Bo Groulx<\/a> scored short-handed to extend it to 5-3 at 8:35, skating on to a flip pass from Brandon Carlo<\/a>\u00a0and shooting low glove from the left hash marks. It was his second NHL goal and first since an empty-net goal on Nov. 7, 2021, when he was with the Ducks.<\/p>\n

Knies shot into an empty net at 18:12 to make it 6-3, before Alex Killorn<\/a>\u00a0scored from the slot at 19:34 for the 6-4 final.<\/p>\n

Maccelli gave the Maple Leafs a 1-0 lead at 7:19 of the first period. He stole the puck from LaCombe at the Toronto blueline, carried it through the neutral zone and shot low blocker from the top of the right circle.<\/p>\n

Gauthier tied it 1-1 at 12:19 when he put in a rebound off the end boards from LaCombe\u2019s shot from the blue line.<\/p>\n

Moore put Anaheim up 2-1 at 14:26 off a pass from Tim Washe<\/a>, who was behind the net, on a shot from the slot.<\/p>\n

Mintyukov pushed it to 3-1 at 2:55 of the second period when he took a shot pass from Ryan Poehling<\/a>\u00a0in the slot and scored over Woll\u2019s blocker from just inside the left dot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews\u00a0scored to end a 12-game goal drought before leaving the game at 15:47 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-217518","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\/217518","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=217518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}