Maple Leafs: Host the Boston Bruins on Saturday.Ĭapitals: Host the New York Rangers on Friday. After scoring five goals in Toronto's first three games, Auston Matthews has gone without a point in three of his last five.

Kapanen's short-handed goal was the first scored by the Maple Leafs and first allowed by the Capitals this season. League MVP Elena Delle Donne dropped the ceremonial first puck prior to the game, and Mystics forward Aerial Powers rode on a zamboni while toting the championship trophy during the first intermission. The reigning WNBA champion Washington Mystics were on hand. NOTES: The Capitals lost D Jonas Siegenthaler (left shoulder) and RW Richard Panik (upper body) to injury following the second period. While the Leafs are sitting at the middle of the standings at 16 th, with a record of 6-5-3. And with 13:35 remaining in the period, Carlson scored off Alex Ovechkin's feed for Washington's seventh power-play goal of the season. NHL Season Monthly Recap: October NHL Season Monthly Recap: October. Within 30 seconds of that, Nicholas Shore and Codi Ceci both took minor penalties to give the Capitals a 5-on-3. Oshie's feed beat Hutchinson to give Washington the lead. Just 11 seconds following the restart, Backstrom's one-timer off T.J. Toronto still led after the first intermission, but that turned into a 4-2 deficit during a 68-second stretch of the second period.įirst, Kuznetsov took Carlson's pass on the break, cut in from the left and wrapped a backhand around Hutchinson's left pad with 14:53 left in the period. Michael Hutchinson stopped 28 shots in his second start for the Maple Leafs, who lost on the road for the first time this season. John Tavares scored late in the third to cut the deficit to 4-3. Kasperi Kapanen scored short-handed and assisted on Ilya Mikheyev's goal as Toronto grabbed an early 2-0 lead.

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