Game

Maple Leafs at Devils

Devils 4, Maple Leafs 3 in a shootout · first star Jesper Bratt (0 G, 1 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Toronto Maple Leafs 3 at New Jersey Devils 4

Maple Leafs TOR

3 FINAL/SO 4

Devils NJD

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Prudential Center, Newark · TV ESPN+ · HULU · SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Maple Leafs	1	1	1	0	0	3	27
Devils	1	1	1	0	1	4	47

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Maple Leafs attack left, Devils attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: TOR 27, NJD 47.

TOR in red NJD in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Maple Leafs 27 shots on goal (3 goals, 13 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Devils 47 shots on goal (3 goals, 21 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TOR SOG	TOR G	TOR ATT	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT
1st	11	1	21	14	1	19
2nd	9	1	16	16	1	25
3rd	5	1	11	14	1	32
OT	2	0	3	3	0	6
Total	27	3	51	47	3	82

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TOR SOG	TOR G	NJD SOG	NJD G
Even strength	22	2	34	3
Power play	5	1	9	0
Short-handed	0	0	4	0

Attempt share by period

Devils took 61.6% of the shot attempts, and 60.2% of the 98 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Devils and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Maple Leafs hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Maple Leafs at Devils
Period	NJD CF%	NJD FF%
1st	47.5	51.5
2nd	61.0	63.6
3rd	74.4	74.3
OT	66.7	57.1
Game	61.6	63.0

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

05:26 Matias Maccelli (11) Dakota Joshua (5), Simon Benoit (4) · wrist 1–0
07:55 Timo Meier (17) Nico Hischier (24), Dawson Mercer (18) · snap 1–1

2nd period

03:20 William Nylander (21) PP Easton Cowan (11), Auston Matthews (26) · deflected 2–1
06:06 Arseny Gritsyuk (11) Jesper Bratt (32), Nico Hischier (25) · wrist 2–2

3rd period

13:50 Matthew Knies (16) John Tavares (29), Troy Stecher (9) · bat 3–2
17:39 Connor Brown (11) Arseny Gritsyuk (15), Luke Hughes (23) · wrist 3–3

Shootout

00:00 Paul Cotter Unassisted · backhand 3–4

Three stars

Jesper Bratt NJD · L #63 · 0 G, 1 A
Anthony Stolarz TOR · G #41 · 0 GA, .936 SV%
Timo Meier NJD · R #28 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	16:16	NJD	Cody Glass	slashing	2	Auston Matthews
2nd	01:21	NJD	Johnathan Kovacevic	closing hand on puck	2	—
2nd	03:50	NJD	Brenden Dillon	cross checking	2	Nick Robertson
2nd	09:11	TOR	Brandon Carlo	cross checking	2	Maxim Tsyplakov
2nd	11:36	TOR	Philippe Myers	interference	2	Lenni Hameenaho
2nd	18:40	TOR	Dakota Joshua	hooking	2	Lenni Hameenaho

Boxscore

Toronto Maple Leafs

Maple Leafs skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Matias Maccelli #63	L	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	16:22
Matthew Knies #23	L	1	0	1	+1	2	1	2	0	0.0	15:48
William Nylander #88	R	1	0	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	22:51
Auston Matthews #34	C	0	1	1	-1	6	1	2	0	33.3	24:57
Dakota Joshua #81	C	0	1	1	+1	1	3	1	2	0.0	11:19
John Tavares #91	C	0	1	1	0	4	1	2	0	56.2	16:45
Easton Cowan #53	R	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:03
Simon Benoit #2	D	0	1	1	-2	1	1	1	0	0.0	17:14
Troy Stecher #28	D	0	1	1	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	20:45
Calle Jarnkrok #19	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	12:18
Max Domi #11	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100.0	15:25
Nicolas Roy #55	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	70.6	17:55
Steven Lorentz #18	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	08:21
Nick Robertson #89	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	10:33
Brandon Carlo #25	D	0	0	0	+1	1	3	2	2	0.0	17:23
Jake McCabe #22	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	0	0.0	26:28
Morgan Rielly #44	D	0	0	0	+2	1	0	2	0	0.0	22:35
Philippe Myers #51	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0.0	14:58

Maple Leafs goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Anthony Stolarz #41	O	47	44	3	.936	31/34	9/9	65:00

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Arseny Gritsyuk #81	R	1	1	2	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:04
Nico Hischier #13	C	0	2	2	+1	5	1	0	0	63.6	24:17
Connor Brown #16	R	1	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	0.0	17:16
Timo Meier #28	R	1	0	1	+1	7	0	2	0	0.0	19:19
Dawson Mercer #91	C	0	1	1	+1	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:49
Jesper Bratt #63	L	0	1	1	+1	4	1	0	0	0.0	20:31
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	+2	4	1	1	0	0.0	22:11
Cody Glass #12	C	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	2	43.8	14:36
Jack Hughes #86	C	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	42.9	22:44
Nick Bjugstad #72	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:33
Paul Cotter #47	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	07:16
Lenni Hameenaho #29	R	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	10:39
Maxim Tsyplakov #42	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	06:52
Brenden Dillon #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	2	0.0	16:21
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	27:15
Johnathan Kovacevic #8	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	15:51
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	20:34
Simon Nemec #17	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	3	0	0.0	18:53

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jacob Markstrom #25	W	27	24	3	.889	20/22	4/5	65:00

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.