Toronto Maple Leafs (32-30-13, in the Atlantic Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (35-31-7, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
San Jose, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Sharks -120, Maple Leafs +100; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks will try to continue a three-game win streak with a victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
San Jose has gone 19-12-5 at home and 35-31-7 overall. The Sharks have given up 259 goals while scoring 222 for a -37 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Toronto is 14-18-5 in road games and 32-30-13 overall. The Maple Leafs have gone 27-11-6 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Sharks won 3-2 in overtime in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Macklin Celebrini has 40 goals and 65 assists for the Sharks. Alexander Wennberg has four goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
John Tavares has 28 goals and 36 assists for the Maple Leafs. William Nylander has four goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 4-5-1, averaging 2.8 goals, five assists, 3.5 penalties and nine penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Maple Leafs: 5-3-2, averaging 3.2 goals, 4.8 assists, 6.5 penalties and 20 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sharks: Ryan Reaves: out (hamd), Igor Chernyshov: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Maple Leafs: Chris Tanev: out for season (abdomen), Auston Matthews: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Toronto Maple Leafs (32-30-13, in the Atlantic Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (35-31-7, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-536259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","14":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116334266515807681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536259","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=536259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}