TORONTO \u2014 Joseph Woll made 40 saves and John Tavares scored the winner as the Toronto Maple Leafs topped the New York Rangers 4-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Jake McCabe, Nick Robertson and Dakota Joshua had the other goals for Toronto (31-29-13).<\/p>\n
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Matias Maccelli added two assists. Woll picked up the second assist on Joshua’s goal for his first NHL point.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad, with two goals, and Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re, with a goal and two assists, replied for New York (29-35-9), which was eliminated from playoff contention with the loss. Igor Shesterkin stopped 14 shots. Adam Fox chipped in two assists.<\/p>\n
The disappointing Maple Leafs picked up just their second victory (2-7-3) at Scotiabank Arena since mid-January.<\/p>\n
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New York, which will finish below the post-season cutline for a second straight spring, sits second-last in the overall standings. Toronto ranks 21st and is on the way to missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n
TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n
Rangers: Adam Sykora made his NHL debut after being called up from the Hartford Wolf Pack. The 21-year-old winger, selected 63rd overall at the 2022 draft, put up 12 goals and 17 assists for 29 points across 62 games in the American Hockey League in 2025-26.<\/p>\n
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Maple Leafs: William Nylander is one point away from passing his father, Michael, for family bragging rights. The winger has 679 points in 741 regular-season games. The elder Nylander registered 679 points in 920 contests.<\/p>\n
KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n
Tavares scored his 26th goal of the season at 11:57 of the third period to make it 4-2 when he ripped a shot past Shesterkin after Toronto had built a 3-0 lead in the second.<\/p>\n
KEY STAT<\/p>\n
New York, which tied a dubious franchise record with just 10 shots in Monday’s 2-1 home loss to the Ottawa Senators, directed 14 attempts on target in Wednesday’s opening period. The visitors also pumped 17 more pucks on Woll in the second.<\/p>\n
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UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Rangers: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday<\/p>\n
Maple Leafs: Visit the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 25, 2026.<\/p>\n
Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Joseph Woll made 40 saves and John Tavares scored the winner as the Toronto Maple Leafs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[1503,4506,304,3690,96,8080,5,2273,1127,611,3821,20,5172,10077,160,35,4,2779,25,84,66,31,5171,1114],"class_list":["post-523086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-adam-fox","tag-adam-sykora","tag-alexis-lafreniere","tag-american-hockey-league","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-dakota-joshua","tag-hockey","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-jake-mccabe","tag-john-tavares","tag-joseph-woll","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-matias-maccelli","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-nick-robertson","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs","tag-william-nylander"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116293093569236300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}