{"id":395708,"date":"2023-01-20T04:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395708"},"modified":"2023-01-20T04:33:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:33:54","slug":"maple-leafs-down-jets-matthews-scores-twice","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/maple-leafs-down-jets-matthews-scores-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs down Jets, Matthews scores twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Lively Auston Matthews had two goals early in the second period and Ilya Samsonov made 37 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Winnipeg Jets, who entered as the Western Conference\u2019s No. 1 seed, 4-1 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LEAFS WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWIN!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LGCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LGCanada<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeafsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LeafsForever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m2Z3puZeTi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/m2Z3puZeTi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1616262183272288256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cSammy was dialed in,\u201d Matthews said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big win for us, but the game could have definitely been a lot closer had it not been for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two point Tone \u2b50\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Molson_Canadian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Molson_Canadian<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeafsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LeafsForever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SKvbAhByOD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SKvbAhByOD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1616277020648013833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably the game that\u2019s looked closest to him last year in terms of being dangerous, in terms of the way the puck went in the net,\u201d Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said about Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could have had four or five tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Mitch Marner and Mark Giordano, into the empty net, also scored for Toronto, and Michael Bunting added two assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Kyle Connor scored for Winnipeg, and Connor Hellebuyck stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayed really well,\u201d Jets coach Rick Bowness said. \u201cThe mistakes we made with their best players on the ice were glaring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, we gave them the first three goals. You give those guys \u2014 Matthews and Marner \u2014 those chances, they\u2019re going to score.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto visit Montreal Canadiens on Saturday while the Jets are at Ottawa Senators on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lively Auston Matthews had two goals early in the second period and Ilya Samsonov made 37 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395709,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16950,17219,17220,16734,17218],"news_category":[16709,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Toronto goaltender Ilya Samsonov made 37 saves","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395708"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395708"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}