{"id":884048,"date":"2026-10-16T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884048\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:40:08","slug":"mckenna-doesnt-see-ice-in-final-half-of-maple-leafs-ot-loss-to-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884048\/","title":{"rendered":"McKenna doesn&#8217;t see ice in final half of Maple Leafs OT loss to Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/auston-matthews-8479318\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a>\u00a0said he thinks McKenna will use this circumstance as motivation heading into Toronto\u2019s next game against the New York Islanders on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; SNO, SNW, SNP, MSGSN).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those things kind of happen sometimes,\u201d Matthews said. \u201cI think everybody has been in that situation before. It&#8217;s not necessarily a situation you want to be in, but we&#8217;ve all got his back, and I know a game like tonight is going to make him hungry for the next one, to go out there and compete and dominate, and I&#8217;m excited to watch that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hiller had not met with McKenna when the coach addressed the media following the loss to the Sabres, though he said he would prior to the Islanders game.<\/p>\n<p>As for how that meeting could affect the psyche of McKenna, Hiller said he is not concerned about it having a lasting negative impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s very mature, let\u2019s stuff roll off, doesn\u2019t take anything too personally. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve got from him,\u201d Hiller said. \u201cUsually ready to go. There\u2019s been other times I haven\u2019t played him as much and then put him in there and double shifted him, those kinds of things, and he\u2019s responded. So, I\u2019ll talk to him, but I don\u2019t have a big concern about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Auston Matthews\u00a0said he thinks McKenna will use this circumstance as motivation heading into Toronto\u2019s next game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-884048","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\/884048","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=884048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}