{"id":854117,"date":"2026-09-20T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854117\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:52:09","slug":"sept-19-nhl-preseason-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854117\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 19: NHL Preseason Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1: Phillip Danault<\/a>\u00a0scored two goals for the Montreal Canadiens in a split-squad win against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Gavin McKenna<\/a>, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, made his debut for the Maple Leafs and had three shots on goal and one blocked shot in 23:39 of ice time.<\/p>\n

Maksymilian Szuber<\/a> and Samuel Poulin<\/a>\u00a0also scored for the Canadiens, and Sam Montembeault<\/a> stopped all 13 shots he faced. Kaapo Kahkonen<\/a>\u00a0replaced him midway through the second period and made 11 saves.<\/p>\n

Darren Raddysh<\/a> scored for Toronto in his debut after being acquired from the Tampa Bay Lightning for a fifth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft on June 19, signing an eight-year contract in a sign-and-trade.<\/p>\n

Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a>, who signed a three-year contract with Toronto as a free agent on July 1, made 10 saves in his Maple Leafs debut. Anthony Stolarz<\/a>\u00a0made 15 saves in relief after entering the game midway through the second period.<\/p>\n

Each team was playing its preseason opener.<\/p>\n

Danault gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead just 51 seconds into the game, scoring top shelf over Bobrovsky\u2019s left side.<\/p>\n

Raddysh scored a power-play goal at 16:39 to tie the game 1-1, his slap shot from inside the blue line deflecting in off Montreal\u2019s Mike Matheson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Szuber made it 2-1 with a slap shot through traffic from the blue line past Stolarz at 4:46 of the third period.<\/p>\n

Danault scored into an empty net at 18:59 to make it 3-1, and Poulin tipped a puck past Stolarz at 19:37 for the 4-1 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadiens 4, Maple Leafs 1: Phillip Danault\u00a0scored two goals for the Montreal Canadiens in a split-squad win against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-854117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}