{"id":547512,"date":"2026-04-08T14:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:33:18","slug":"game-day-vs-washington-april-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547512\/","title":{"rendered":"GAME DAY vs WASHINGTON &#8211; APRIL 8, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY\u2019S MATCHUP<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs are facing off against the Washington Capitals tonight at the Scotiabank Arena in the third of three games between the clubs this season. Toronto has posted a 0-2-0 record against Washington this season while posting a\u00a05-5-0 record through their last 10 meetings. Toronto has posted an 18-12-8 record on home ice this season. The Maple Leafs are skating in their first game of a back-to-back tonight, taking on the New York Islanders tomorrow night at UBS Arena. The Maple Leafs have posted a 5-6-3 record in the first game of a back-to-back this season.<\/p>\n<p>LAST GAME<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs lost a 7-6 overtime decision against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night at the Crypto.com Arena.\u00a0Matthew Knies marked his fourth multi-goal game of the season(2G), his eighth multi-assist game of the season (2A] and his second four-point game of the season (2G, 2A). John Tavares also scored for the Maple Leafs marking the eighth 30-goal season of his NHL career and his fourth 30-goal season with Toronto. Tavares marked his sixth multi-assist game of the season, his 16th multi-point game of the season and his fourth three-point game of the season (IG, 2A). Steven Lorentz, Easton Cowan and Nicholas Robertson also scored a goal each for the Maple Leafs. Joseph Woll stopped 33 of 40 shots he faced in Saturday&#8217;s overtime loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TODAY\u2019S MATCHUP The Maple Leafs are facing off against the Washington Capitals tonight at the Scotiabank Arena in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547513,"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-547512","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\/116369582693016280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547512","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=547512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}