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William Nylander scores twice in the Maple Leafs' 4-1 victory over the Kraken
TORONTO (AP) — William Nylander scored twice, Joseph Woll made 24 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Seattle Kraken 4-1 on Thursday night. Matthew Knies and Auston Matthews, with a bank-shot empty-netter, also scored to help Toronto improve to 6-4-1. Matthews also had an...
Marchand gets 1st goal of season in OT to lift Bruins to 4-3 win over Maple Leafs
BOSTON (AP) — Brad Marchand scored his first goal of the season 2:26 into overtime, and the Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Saturday night to snap a three-game losing streak. David Pastrnak had a power-play goal, and Justin Brazeau and Mark Kastelic scored 36...
Maple Leafs bumble way to 5-1 loss in Berube's first game against Blues since firing
TORONTO (AP) — Craig Berube ran a gauntlet of emotions Thursday morning. The Toronto Maple Leafs coach was poised to face the St. Louis Blues — the team he led to its only Stanley Cup in 2019, and the one that fired him last December — looking for a bounce-back performance...
William Nylander scores twice, powers Maple Leafs over Lightning 5-2
TORONTO (AP) — William Nylander had two goals and an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 on Monday night. Auston Matthews, Max Pacioretty and Matthew Knies also scored for Toronto. Anthony Stolarz made 32 saves. Mitch Marner had two assists. ...
Kreider scores 2, Shesterkin has 34 saves as Rangers beat Maple Leafs 4-1
TORONTO (AP) — Chris Kreider scored twice and Igor Shesterkin stopped 34 shots as the New York Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 on Saturday night. Alexis Lafreniere and Artemi Panarin also scored for the Rangers, and Mika Zibanejad and Reilly Smith each had two assists. New...
Matthews breaks out of opening drought with goal and 2 assists, Maple Leafs beat Kings 6-2
TORONTO (AP) — Auston Matthews broke out of a season-opening points drought, scoring his first goal and adding his first two assists as Toronto's captain in the Maple Leafs' 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night. Matthews made it 2-0 midway through the first...
Canada ending its NHL title drought? AP predicts the Stanley Cup champion and top award winners
The NHL season begins in Prague, makes a stop in Finland in November and there are more than 1,200 games to be played around North America. The Florida Panthers raise their first Stanley Cup championship banner and the Utah Hockey Club plays its first game since moving from Arizona...
From the Stanley Cup champion Panthers and beyond, the NHL is shooting for another best season ever
Aleksander Barkov lifted the Stanley Cup over his head, passed it around to his Panthers teammates and hockey's holy grail got a new home in South Florida. The next morning, Matthew Tkachuk gave it a saltwater bath in the Atlantic Ocean. Commissioner Gary Bettman woke up after what...
NHL season has international flavor with the 4 Nations Face-off as a Winter Olympics appetizer
Nico Hischier grew up in Switzerland dreaming of playing in the Winter Olympics. “I’ve never gotten to experience that,” he said. The countdown is underway for Hischier, who hopes to join the NHL's best at the Olympics in Milan in February 2026. This season...
Sharks' Celebrini and Smith and Canadiens' Slafkovsky headline the NHL's next generation of stars
Juraj Slafkovsky was an NHL draft pick, just like Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Auston Matthews, Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid and Connor Bedard. The spotlight, however, has not been quite as bright or the hype train as strong for him in Montreal. “I like it that way,”...
