{"id":175734,"date":"2026-03-26T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/175734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:09:15","slug":"rangers-eliminated-from-playoff-contention-in-loss-to-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/175734\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers eliminated from playoff contention in loss to Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dakota Joshua had a goal and an assist, Joseph Woll made 40 saves and added an assist, and the Toronto Maple Leafs topped the Rangers 4-3 on Wednesday night, eliminating New York from playoff contention.<\/p>\n<p>Jake McCabe, Nick Robertson and John Tavares had the other goals for Toronto and Matias Maccelli added two assists. Woll picked up the second assist on Joshua&#8217;s goal for his first NHL point.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Zibanejad scored two goals and Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and two assists for the Rangers, while Igor Shesterkin stopped 14 shots. Adam Fox chipped in two assists.<\/p>\n<p>New York, which will finish below the postseason cutline for a second straight season, sits second-to-last in the overall standings. Toronto ranks 21st and is on the way to missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Tavares scored his 26th goal of the season at 11:57 of the third period to make it 4-2 when he ripped a shot past Shesterkin after Toronto had built a 3-0 lead in the second.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s Adam Sykora made his NHL debut after being called up from the Hartford Wolf Pack. The 21-year-old winger, selected 63rd overall at the 2022 draft, had 12 goals and 17 assists for 29 points across 62 games in the AHL this season.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s William Nylander is one point away from passing his father, Michael, for family bragging rights. The winger has 679 points in 741 regular-season games. The elder Nylander registered 679 points in 920 contests.<\/p>\n<p>New York, which tied a dubious franchise record with just 10 shots in Monday&#8217;s 2-1 home loss to the Ottawa Senators, directed 14 attempts on target in Wednesday&#8217;s opening period. The visitors had 17 more shots on Woll in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Rangers: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs: Visit the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dakota Joshua had a goal and an assist, Joseph Woll made 40 saves and added an assist, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,539,5534],"class_list":["post-175734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nhl","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}