{"id":478620,"date":"2024-02-19T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478620"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:29:07","slug":"matthews-notches-nhl-leading-49th-goal-in-maple-leafs-4-2-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/matthews-notches-nhl-leading-49th-goal-in-maple-leafs-4-2-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews notches NHL-leading 49th goal in Maple Leafs\u2019 4-2 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auston Matthews notched his NHL-leading 49th campaign goal and had an assist, leading the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-2 triumph against the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center in Saint Louis, MO.<\/p>\n<p>Auston, the 1<sup>st<\/sup> selection in the 2016 NHL Draft, had recorded hat tricks in his 2 previous matches. Matthews\u2019 go-ahead goal came on a power play at the beginning of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period. Toronto\u2019s forward has notched 14 goals and provided 9 assists on this campaign&#8217;s power play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LEAFS WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWIN!!!<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\/TqtNVVwVLs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TqtNVVwVLs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1759678999586918677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Knies also notched, and William Nylander netted a short-handed goal for Toronto. Bobby McMann notched on an empty net. Mitchell Marner gave 2 assists for the victory. Ilya Samsonov made 19 saves for the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">*scheduled tweet*<\/p>\n<p>Auston Matthews Goal! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYzdIsNIgx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LYzdIsNIgx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1759670485640425809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Saad and Torey Krug notched for the Blues as \u00a0Joel Hofer made 25 saves.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs triumphed in 4<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive match and swept the 2-match series between the franchises.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis has been defeated in 3 of their last 4 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will play at Arizona on Wednesday, while St. Louis will welcome the Islanders on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/por4BvC45nk?si=86ymKuuwnQYCdMFv\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auston Matthews notched his NHL-leading 49th campaign goal and had an assist, leading the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-2 triumph against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478627,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,16893,16734],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18101,17890,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Maple Leafs defeated the Blues 4-2 at Enterprise Center.","video":["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\/478620"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478625,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478620\/revisions\/478625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478620"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478620"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}