The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 at Rogers Arena on Saturday night, October 31, ending a two game losing streak. Auston Matthews scored his team leading 11th goal of the season, William Nylander and Teddy Blueger each had a goal and an assist, and Anthony Stolarz made 27 saves.
FINAL: Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Vancouver Canucks 2
How to watch: Toronto Maple Leafs at Vancouver Canucks, Saturday, October 31, 2026, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver
Next up: Toronto hosts the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday night; Vancouver hosts the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday night
Maple Leafs vs Canucks: Nylander Opens, Matthews Restores
Nylander opened the scoring 1 minute and 23 seconds into the first period, and the goal carried a line in the franchise record book with it: it was his 42nd career game opening goal, passing Frank Mahovlich’s 41 for the eighth most in Maple Leafs history. Brock Boeser answered for Vancouver, and the game turned in the second period. At 3:47, Matthews restored the Toronto lead at 2-1, beating goaltender Leevi Merilainen on the short side after a back and forth passing play with defenceman Darren Raddysh. Jack Roslovic drew an assist on the goal, extending his point streak to six games, with three goals and seven assists in that run, and Matthews extended his season opening road point streak to eight games, matching the third longest run in franchise history behind Babe Dye and Harry Cameron.
Zack MacEwen doubled the lead later in the second, and his goal stood as the game winner, the sixth game winning goal of his career. Blueger, MacEwen and Dakota Joshua all factored on the scoresheet against their former team, which gave the middle of the Toronto lineup a story of its own on a night the stars opened and closed the scoring.
Sasson Cuts It Close, Blueger Seals It
Vancouver’s push came in the third. Max Sasson scored at 9:27, assisted by Brendan Gallagher, cutting the lead to 3-2 and giving the home crowd a reason to believe in a comeback against a Toronto team that had surrendered a power play goal on the road for a fourth straight game. The Canucks pressed, but the equalizer never came. With the net empty, Blueger scored at 18:24 to seal the 4-2 final, with Nylander and Stolarz drawing the assists. The assist was Stolarz’s third of the season, to go with his fifth victory, on a night he stopped 27 of 29 shots.
The underlying numbers favoured Toronto where it mattered. The Leafs won 63 percent of faceoffs, going 34 of 54, and outhit Vancouver 30 to 26, while the Canucks held a narrow 29 to 28 edge in shots. Toronto went 0 for 2 on the power play and 1 for 4 on the penalty kill, a special teams line that says the win was built at even strength, through the second period burst that produced two goals and the lead the team never gave back.
First Regulation Win In Vancouver Since 2019
The result carries a few markers worth filing. It is Toronto’s first regulation win in Vancouver since December 10, 2019, a 4-1 victory. It is the club’s 16th victory on Halloween, the most by any NHL team. The Leafs improve to 8-6-2, wrap a four game road trip at two wins and two losses, and move to 4-3-1 on the road and 5-3-1 against Western Conference opponents. Vancouver falls to 3-12-1, with one win in its last 13 games, a slide that continues to define the bottom of the conference standings.
Depth scoring decided the rest of the night. Raddysh’s assist on the Matthews goal gave him points in two straight games, and the pairing work behind the forwards held up through a third period in which Vancouver outshot its season pattern and pushed for an equalizer that never arrived. Toronto’s bench shortened late, the top lines carried the defensive zone starts, and the Leafs still found their empty net goal from a fourth line winger, which is the kind of detail coaches point to when a road trip turns. Four different Leafs scored, six recorded points, and the goaltender finished the night with an assist on the sealing goal.
Both teams are back on the ice Tuesday. Toronto returns home to host the Utah Mammoth at Scotiabank Arena, and Vancouver stays at Rogers Arena to host Anaheim. For the Leafs, the road trip ends the way the schedule asked it to: a skid stopped, the captain at 11 goals, a milestone for Nylander, and two points taken out of a building where regulation wins have been rare for six years.
