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
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
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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
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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
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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<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs (32-30-13, in the Atlantic Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (35-31-7, in the Pacific Division) San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[1698,2216,532,2617,3651,5,164,611,501,20,5172,4,2219,7590,519,168,1780,1692,66,31,5171,1114],"class_list":{"0":"post-536307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-alexander-wennberg","9":"tag-atlantic-division","10":"tag-auston-matthews","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-chris-tanev","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-igor-chernyshov","15":"tag-john-tavares","16":"tag-macklin-celebrini","17":"tag-maple-leafs","18":"tag-mapleleafs","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-pacific-division","21":"tag-ryan-reaves","22":"tag-san-jose","23":"tag-san-jose-sharks","24":"tag-sharks","25":"tag-the-sharks","26":"tag-toronto","27":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","28":"tag-torontomapleleafs","29":"tag-william-nylander"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116334479630367529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536307","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=536307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}