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TOR 5 - LAV 4 (SO)

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Toronto: J. Quillan (4) (Unassisted), M. Barbolini (2) (C. Paré, R. Tverberg), A. Nylander (7) (Unassisted), L. Shaw (9) (A. Nylander, J. Quillan)
Goaltender: V. Peksa (25/29) W

Laval: W. Trudeau (3) (T. Thorpe, F. Xhekaj), A. Belzile (L. Dauphin, S. Farrell), S. Farrell (6) PP (F. Mešár, T. Thorpe), L. Tuch (4) (T. Thorpe, W. Dineen)
Goaltender: K. Kähkönen (21/25) SO/L

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Jacob Quillan put the Marlies on the board at 1:18 of the second period and later added the secondary assist on Shaw’s third period goal. He has 18 points (4 goals, 14 assists) in 20 games this season.
• Matthew Barbolini scored at 6:20 of the second period. He has seven points (2 goals, 5 assists) in 20 games this season.
• Alex Nylander scored at13:35 of the second period and later added the primary assist on Shaw’s third period goal. He has points (2-2-4) in three consecutive games. Nylander has 15 points (7 goals, 8 assists) in 20 games this season.
• Logan Shaw scored at 18:51 of the third period. He has points (2-1-3) in consecutive games. Shaw leads all Marlies in goals (9) through 24 games this season.
• Cédric Paré had the primary assist on Barbolini’s second period goal. This was his 100^th career AHL point.
• Ryan Tverberg recorded the secondary assist on Barbolini’s second period goal.
• Vyacheslav Peksa stopped 25 of 29 shots he faced and all six shooters in his first career AHL shootout.

IN THE SHOOTOUT

• Borya Valis – No goal (2025-26: 0/1)
• Bo Groulx – No goal (2025-26: 0/1)
• Alex Nylander – No goal (2025-26: 0/2)
• Cédric Paré – No goal (2025-26: 0/1)
• Logan Shaw – No goal (2025-26: 0/2)
• Luke Haymes – Goal (2025-26: 1/1)

TEAM NOTES

• This was Toronto’s first shootout win of the season this season.
• The Marlies were 3-for-4 on the penalty kill and 0-for-4 on the power play. Toronto is 6-9-1-0 when not scoring on the power play and 5-8-1-1 when allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
• Laval outshot Toronto 29-26 in all situations. Alex Nylander led the Marlies with four shots on net. Toronto is 7-6-0-0 when outshot by their opponent.
• The Marlies are 5-4-0-1 against North Division opponents and are 1-0-0-0 against the Rocket this season.

GR 4 - TOR 2

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Grand Rapids: C. Bantle (2) (A. Doucet, N. Moyle), A. Tuomisto (4) (I. Mitchell,C. Bantle), E. Tralmaks (12) (J. Rychlovsky, W. Lagesson), D. Shine (11) PP (I. Mitchell, O. Becher)
Goaltender: D. Tokarski (25/27) W

Toronto: B. Groulx (8) PP (V. Lettieri, L. Shaw), L. Shaw (8) (J. Quillan, A. Nylander)
Goaltender: K. Appleby (13/17) L          

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Bo Groulx put the Marlies on the board at 17:11 of the third period with his first power play goal of the season. He has 16 points (8 goals, 8 assists) in 23 games this season.
• Logan Shaw scored at 19:30 of the third period and earlier had the secondary assist on Groulx’s third period goal. He is now tied for third all-time with the Marlies in assists (112) and is fourth in goals (71).
• Vinni Lettieri recorded the primary assist on Groulx’s third period power play goal. He has 12 points (3 goals, 9 assists) in 19 games with the Marlies this season.
• Jacob Quillan had the primary assist on Shaw’s third period goal. He has 16 points (3 goals, 13 assists) in 19 games this season.
• Alex Nylander registered the secondary assist on Shaw’s third period goal. He has 13 points (6 goals, 7 assists) in 19 games this season with the Marlies.
• Ken Appleby stopped 13 of 17 shots he faced in his first start with the Marlies.

TEAM NOTES

• The Marlies were 3-for-4 on the penalty kill and 1-for-3 on the power play. Toronto is 5-2-0-1 when scoring on the power play and 4-8-1-1 when allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
• Toronto outshot Grand Rapids 27-17 in all situations. Alex Nylander led the Marlies with five shots on net. Toronto 4-5-1-0 when outshooting their opponent.
• The Marlies are 3-4-1-0 against Central Division opponents and finish their regular season series 0-3-1-0 against the Griffins.

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH JOHN GRUDEN

On today’s game:

The first 20 minutes were as good as we could have played. The only thing is we didn’t get a goal. We needed to get that first one to let a little of the pressure off. We turned a couple pucks over there in the second early and we got away from what was working. You can’t play against a team like that that is structured and has that experience on the back end. You can’t chase. It just snowballed and it’s definitely not the way we have to play. We’ve got to learn and we’ve got to learn quicker.

LOGAN SHAW (1 GOAL, 1 ASSIST)

On today’s game:

It just goes back to our consistency. It’s been something we’re trying to get better at since game one. For a while there it was our starts and then now from the drop of the puck for the last five or six games, we’ve been playing our best. A tie game against the best team in the league we’ve got to be sitting in a good spot and not take our foot off the gas and I feel like in the second period, we kind of did that. We sat back from our structure a little bit and our work ethic. Guys were working but maybe not working as smart as we should. They’re a good team so they’re going to capitalize, they’re going to stick to their structure. They’re doing the same thing all game long. They’re getting pucks in behind the D and they’re just going to pressure, pressure, pressure and make plays when the chance is there. For us, it’s something that we can actually learn from watching them (that) we don’t have to be pretty making plays all the time. Just get the puck in and you’re going to get rewarded by working hard.

On work ethic:

We’re not going to quit. Maybe sometimes we don’t work smart but we’re always working. It’s one thing I’ll say our team does is that we work. Everyone in that dressing room has the tendency to work hard and work hard every shift but sometimes you’re not working as smart as you should and that’s the tough part about hockey is that it’s okay to make mistakes as long as you’re working through them. Our team won’t quit. I know I won’t let us quit and everyone in there has that same mentality is that we’re going to push right to the end. We played two decent games, but we took our foot off the gas for a little bit and it’s a good team over there so, they took advantage of it.

GR 3 - TOR 2

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Grand Rapids: E. Tralmaks (11) (Unassisted), S. Dries (6) PP (O. Becher, E. Gustafsson), M. Brandsegg-Nygård (5) (J. Holl, E. Gustafsson)
Goaltender: S. Cossa (23/25) W

Toronto: A. Nylander (6) (Unassisted), M. Johnstone (3) (M. Pezzetta, J. Prokop)
Goaltender: V. Peksa (26/29) L

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Alex Nylander opened the scoring unassisted at 17:08 of the first period. He has 12 points (6 goals, 6 assists) in 18 games this season with the Marlies.
• Marc Johnstone scored at 19:25 of the second period. He has goals (2) in consecutive games. Johnstone has four points (3 goals, 1 assist) in 10 games this season.
• Michael Pezzetta recorded the primary assist on Johnstone’s second period goal. He has three assists in 14 games with the Marlies.
• John Prokop had the secondary assist on Johnstone’s second period goal. He has two assists in 11 games this season.
• Vyacheslav Peksa stopped 26 of 29 shots he faced. He is 1-2-0 this season with a 2.89 goals against average and a 0.910 save percentage.

TEAM NOTES

• The Marlies were 1-for-2 on the penalty kill and 0-for-1 on the power play. Toronto is 5-8-1-0 when not scoring on the power play and 4-7-1-1 when allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
•  Grand Rapids outshot Toronto 29-25 in all situations. Alex Nylander led the Marlies with five shots on goal. Toronto is 6-6-0-0 when outshot by their opponent.
• The Marlies are 3-3-1-0 against Central Division opponents and are 0-2-1-0 against the Griffins.

POSTGAME QUOTES

HEAD COACH JOHN GRUDEN

On today’s game:

We started well. I thought when we were making their D turn and we were spending some time in the offensive zone. I thought we transitioned the puck well. There was a lot to like about our game. Again, we don’t like the result but there’s a lot to like. If we can get that same effort again tomorrow, we’ll give ourselves a chance to win.

TOR 4 - 3 BEL

Toronto: V. Lettieri (3) (M. Benning), L. Shaw (7) (B. Groulx, M. Benning),M. Johnstone (2) (Unassisted), R. Johnson (4) (V. Lettieri, M. Benning)
Goaltender: A. Akhtyamov (19/22) W

Belleville: O. Lycksell (3) (G. Pilon), G. Pilon (2) SH (J. Donovan), A.Kaliyev (14) PP (O. Lycksell, P. Daoust)
Goaltender: M. Søgaard (27/31) L        

ON THE SCORESHEET

• Vinni Lettieri opened the scoring at 3:38 of the first period and later added the primary assist on Johnson’s third period goal. He has points (1-3-4) in three consecutive games. Lettieri has 11 points (3 goals, 8 assists) in 17 games with the Marlies this season.
• Logan Shaw scored at 3:57 of the first period. He has 12 points (7 goals, 5 assists) in 21 games this season.
• Marc Johnstone scored unassisted at 3:23 of the second period. He has three points (2 goals, 1 assist) in nine games this season.
• Reese Johnson scored the game-winning goal at 12:53 of the third period. He has goals (2) in consecutive games. Johnson has six points (4 goals, 2 assists) in 15 games this season.
• Matt Benning recorded the lone assist on Lettieri’s goal and the secondary assist on Shaw’s goal, both in the first period. He also had the secondary assist on Johnson’s third period goal. This was his first career three-point game.
• Bo Groulx had the primary assist on Shaw’s first period goal. He has points (1-4-5) in three consecutive games. Groulx has 15 points (7 goals, 8 assists) in 21 games this season.
• Artur Akhtyamov stopped 19 of 22 shots he faced. He is 7-5-0 this season with a 3.04 goals against average and a 0.896 save percentage.

TEAM NOTES

• The Marlies were 3-for-4 on the penalty kill and 0-for-3 on the power play. Toronto is 5-7-1-0 when not scoring on the power play and 4-6-1-1 when allowing a goal on the penalty kill. Toronto allowed its first shorthanded goal of the season in the second period.
• Toronto outshot Belleville 31-22 in all situations. Bo Groulx led the Marlies with five shots on goal. Toronto 4-4-1-0 when outshooting their opponent.
• The Marlies are 4-4-0-1 against North Division opponents and are 2-2-0-1 against the Senators.

POSTGAME QUOTES

MATT BENNING (3 ASSISTS)

On returning from injury:

I said in the locker room being hurt is not fun. So, to get back out there and get two points for the team, it’s fun. It’s good to be around the guys – battling, working towards something. It was fun tonight.

On his performance:
As a team we talked about getting to the net a little bit more and on all three of those goals (that he assisted on), we had guys in front of the goalie’s eyes and without that piece there, none of those are going in. Shawzy went hard to the net on one, Vinni had a nice play to get to the net on the other and then Vinni again with his pass to (Johnson), we had traffic. It’s hard for a goalie to save a puck he can’t see and I thought the forwards did a great job of that tonight.

MARC JOHNSTONE (1 GOAL)

On tonight’s game:

We played a complete 60 today. We showed what we can do when we stick together and play the right way. It started off with Bo, Vinni and Shaw and they led the way. They had those two quick goals which really turned the momentum and then everyone followed. It was just a great team effort overall.

On the five-minute penalty kill:

It just shows that when you stick together, you can do anything. It was a huge kill. It was a one-goal game. We buckled down and got the job done. It’s a credit to the killers that we have.