{"id":873535,"date":"2026-10-07T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:28:08","slug":"mckenna-scores-first-nhl-goal-maple-leafs-rally-past-predators-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873535\/","title":{"rendered":"McKenna scores first NHL goal, Maple Leafs rally past Predators in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nylander appeared to put Toronto up 5-4 at 11:49, but the goal was disallowed after Nashville successfully challenged for offside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like in the locker room, I kind of felt like we were maybe going to come back,\u201d Nylander said. \u201cThe past couple games we\u2019ve been building something even not being on the right side of results, but maybe we didn\u2019t play great in the first period but started putting it together in the second and third starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/mapleleafs\/player\/john-tavares-8475166\/stats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John<\/a> (Tavares).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Predators went up 1-0 on the power play at 7:13 of the first period when Stamkos put in the rebound of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/matthew-wood-8484241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Wood<\/a>\u2019s shot below the left dot. Toronto had three chances to clear the zone on the penalty kill but failed to do so each time before Stamkos\u2019 goal.<\/p>\n<p>Hoglander pushed it to 2-0 at 9:08. After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/adam-wilsby-8482482\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Wilsby<\/a>\u2019s shot banked off the end boards, Hoglander corralled it at the left side of the net and tucked it around the post with Stolarz out of position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hoglander scored again at 3:03 of the second period to make it 3-0, chipping in a rebound at the side of the crease after Filip Forsberg carried the puck to the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tavares pulled Toronto to within 3-1 at 4:56. He carried the puck through the neutral zone after taking a pass from McKenna and shot over Saros\u2019 blocker from the left dot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nylander then made it 3-2 on the power play at 6:58. After Saros made a right pad save on Matthews\u2019 shot, Nylander put the rebound in from the slot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty disappointing,\u201d Stamkos said. \u201cWe played so good at the beginning, get a 3-0 lead, come out, start strong. I don\u2019t know how many times we have to remind ourselves that taking penalties is a recipe to allow teams back in the game. They get some momentum back, their good players feel the puck and start to feel good about their game. \u2026 (At) 3-0, that should be a game we close out if we want to be a playoff team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nylander appeared to put Toronto up 5-4 at 11:49, but the goal was disallowed after Nashville successfully challenged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-873535","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\/873535","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=873535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}