{"id":119961,"date":"2017-09-28T00:57:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T04:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=119961"},"modified":"2017-09-28T00:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T04:57:14","slug":"johnsson-leads-maple-leafs-past-canadiens-4-2-in-pre-season-game-in-quebec-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/28\/johnsson-leads-maple-leafs-past-canadiens-4-2-in-pre-season-game-in-quebec-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnsson leads Maple Leafs past Canadiens 4 2 in pre season game in Quebec City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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QUEBEC \u2014 \u00a0Andreas Johnsson scored and added two assists to power the Toronto Maple Leafs past the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 on Wednesday night in pre-season action.<\/p>\n

Johnsson assisted on Andreas Borgman’s winner as well as Martin Marincin’s goal for Toronto (4-2-0). Connor Carrick also scored in the Maple Leafs’ three-goal second period. Curtis McElhinney made 29 saves for the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important things are to play well in the system and work as hard as I can,\u201d said Johnsson, a 22-year-old left-winger who spent all of last season with the American Hockey League’s Toronto Marlies.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Drouin and Andrew Shaw, on the power play, built a 2-0 lead for Montreal (0-6-0) in the first period. Carey Price stopped 24 shots in net.<\/p>\n

The game was held at Quebec City’s Videotron Centre, with 14,452 fans in attendance.<\/p>\n

The Maple Leafs won even though they had left all their big guns in Toronto and were facing a Canadiens’ lineup stacked with veterans including Drouin, Shaw, Max Pacioretty, Brendan Gallagher, Alex Galchenyuk, Shea Weber and Price.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lineups can be a little misleading,\u201d said McElhinney, \u201cI give credit to those kids for coming out and working hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drouin and Shaw, who returned from injuries, were both playing in their second games of the pre-season and got three and four shots respectively on McElhinney.<\/p>\n

The Marincin and Borgman goals were scored 99 seconds apart and gave the Maple Leafs a 3-2 lead heading into the second intermission.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens and Maple Leafs each have two games left in the pre-season. Montreal hosts the Florida Panthers on Friday and the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Toronto plays a home-and-home series against the Red Wings \u2014 \u00a0Friday in Detroit and Saturday in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QUEBEC \u2014 \u00a0Andreas Johnsson scored and added two assists to power the Toronto Maple Leafs past the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":119967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[25115,18869,12900],"class_list":["post-119961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andreas-johnsson","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}