{"id":374649,"date":"2026-10-16T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374649\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:10:08","slug":"toronto-hosts-new-york-after-marchenkos-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374649\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto hosts New York after Marchenko&#8217;s hat trick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/new-york-islanders-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> (3-3-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/toronto-maple-leafs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> (3-3-2, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Toronto; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Maple Leafs host the New York Islanders after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/kirill-marchenko-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirill Marchenko<\/a> recorded a hat trick in the Maple Leafs&#8217; 5-4 overtime loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/buffalo-sabres-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Toronto is 3-3-2 overall and 2-2-1 in home games. The Maple Leafs have conceded 27 goals while scoring 28 for a +1 scoring differential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">New York is 0-2-1 in road games and 3-3-1 overall. The Islanders have allowed 16 goals while scoring 20 for a +4 scoring differential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Saturday&#8217;s game is the second time these teams meet this season. The Maple Leafs won the last matchup 2-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Maple Leafs: John Tavares: day to day (lower body), Dakota Joshua: out (abdomen), Cade Webber: out (elbow), Elvis Merzlikins: out (shoulder), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/max-domi-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Domi<\/a>: out (back), Miles Wood: out (undisclosed), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/christopher-tanev-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Tanev<\/a>: out (upper body), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/william-villeneuve-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Villeneuve<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Islanders: Mathew Barzal: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/alexander-romanov-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Romanov<\/a>: out (acl).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press New York Islanders (3-3-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (3-3-2, in the Atlantic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137220,137894,54398,137892,137893,13791,9,11,6821,10,5534,137895],"class_list":["post-374649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alexander-romanov","tag-chris-tanev","tag-event_preview","tag-kirill-marchenko","tag-max-domi","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-new-york-news","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-william-villeneuve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374649","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=374649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}