{"id":378740,"date":"2026-10-21T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378740\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:52:09","slug":"new-york-visits-toronto-after-bjorkstrands-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378740\/","title":{"rendered":"New York visits Toronto after Bjorkstrand’s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Rangers<\/a> (7-3-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> (5-4-2, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers visit the Toronto Maple Leafs after Oliver Bjorkstrand’s<\/a> two-goal game against the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> in the Rangers’ 5-2 win.<\/p>\n

Toronto has a 5-4-2 record overall and a 3-3-1 record on its home ice. The Maple Leafs are seventh in the league serving 9.8 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n

New York has gone 1-3-1 on the road and 7-3-1 overall. The Rangers have a 5-2-0 record when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Maple Leafs: John Tavares: out (lower body), Dakota Joshua: out (abdomen), Jake McCabe<\/a>: day to day (face), Cade Webber: out (elbow), Elvis Merzlikins: out (shoulder), Max Domi<\/a>: out (back), Miles Wood: out (undisclosed), Chris Tanev<\/a>: out (upper body), William Villeneuve<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Rangers: Joseph Veleno<\/a>: out (lower-body), Igor Shesterkin<\/a>: out for season (lower body), Joonas Korpisalo: out (lower-body), Aidan Thompson<\/a>: out (undisclosed), Adam Sykora<\/a>: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers (7-3-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (5-4-2, in the Atlantic Division) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71313,134718,137894,54398,3518,3503,139112,137893,13791,9,11,10,541,139111,5534,137895],"class_list":["post-378740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adam-sykora","tag-aidan-thompson","tag-chris-tanev","tag-event_preview","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-jake-mccabe","tag-joseph-veleno","tag-max-domi","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-oliver-bjorkstrand","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-william-villeneuve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378740","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=378740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}