Power scores in overtime as Sabres rally past Leafs 5-4; Tavares leaves game early

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Chidley-Hill, J. (2026, October 16). Power scores in overtime as Sabres rally past Leafs 5-4; Tavares leaves game early. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/power-scores-in-overtime-as-sabres-rally-past-leafs-5-4-tavares-leaves-game-early/article_7be62402-fe66-5540-9aae-7f48274df59d.html

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-16 · by John Chidley-Hill

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In an NHL game played on Thursday, the Buffalo Sabres defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 in overtime. Owen Power scored the winning goal for Buffalo (4-3-1), which rallied from a 4-2 deficit after goals by Dennis Gilbert and Mattias Samuelsson in the third period tied the game at 4-4. Kirill Marchenko, recently traded to Toronto, recorded his fifth career hat trick but was unable to prevent the loss as Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 29 saves for Buffalo. The Maple Leafs' John Tavares left early due to a collision with Josh Norris, impacting their ability to maintain control of the game in the third period.
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📰 Sabres Rally Past Leafs In OT
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Global News · 0.99 cosine similarity
⚖️ leaning not scored 🔴 0% hedged 0 of 21 📰 publisher trust 64
“Both articles describe the identical hockey game where Owen Power scored the overtime goal, resulting in a 5-4 win for Buffalo Sabres against Toronto Maple Leafs on the same date.”
Toronto Star · 0.94 cosine similarity
⚖️ leaning not scored 🔴 0% hedged 0 of 11 📰 publisher trust 63
“Both articles describe Owen Power's overtime goal that led to the Buffalo Sabres' victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs with a final score of 5-4 on the same date and place.”
Toronto Star
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“Both articles describe the same hockey game between Buffalo Sabres and Toronto Maple Leafs on October 16, 2026, with identical outcomes including Kirill Marchenko's hat trick and Owen Power's overtime goal.”
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John Chidley-Hill
12 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
🔮 He bumped William Nylander up to the top line with Matthews and put Marchenko on Tavares’s wing.
🔮 Toronto will host the Chicago Bulls on Oct. 21 in their home opener.
🔮 Toronto will host the Chicago Bulls on Oct. 21 in their home opener.
🔮 Barrett’s next deal will allow him to make up to $44 million per season, but the Raptors are already well above the NBA’s salary cap for 2027-28 with fellow starters Kawhi Leonard, Scottie Barnes, Immanuel Quickley and Jakob Poeltl signed to lucrative multi-year deals.
🔮 Instead of taking the rest of his rookie season off, the 23-year-old told anyone he could that he wanted to make as many starts as possible before the season’s end.
🔮 The loss guaranteed that the Blue Jays will finish the season last in the American League East.
🔮 Scherzer will start on short rest for the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday against the Cincinnati Reds in a scheduling decision that appeared to give the surefire Hall of Famer a proper sendoff in Toronto’s final game of the season.
🔮 Up next Trey Yesavage (5-5) will start for the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon in the second-last game of the season.
🔮 I’m sure there will be pictures posted, and you guys will definitely like it.”
🔮 Here’s what you need to know about how the pending Toronto-L.A. trade will impact both teams:
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Topics

Buffalo Maple Leafs NHL Sabres TORONTO

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TORONTO GPE · 10× Marchenko PERSON · 5× Buffalo ORG · 4× Sabres ORG · 4× Tavares PERSON · 4× Maple Leafs ORG · 3× Matthews PERSON · 2× NHL ORG · 2× the Maple Leafs ORG · 2× Owen Power PERSON · 1×

Narrative

Toronto was sloppy with the puck in the first period — Quinn’s first goal came on a bad giveaway by Maple Leafs defenceman Nick Blankenburg — but the Sabres only managed eight shots to Toronto’s 15 in the frame.
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🔮 He bumped William Nylander up to the top line with Matthews and put Marchenko on Tavares’s wing.
2026-10-16 · Global News
Power scores in OT as Sabres rally past Leafs · assertive framing

Claims (21 extracted, 0 hedged)

Owen Power had the overtime winner as the Buffalo Sabres reeled off three unanswered goals to rally past the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Thursday. asserted
Sabres → have → Thursday
Jack Quinn had a pair of goals for Buffalo (4-3-1) before Dennis Gilbert and Mattias Samuelsson scored in the third to tie it 4-4. asserted
Gilbert → have → it
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 26 shots in net for the win. asserted
Luukkonen → stop → win
Kirill Marchenko had a hat trick, the fifth of his career, in his 300th NHL game to give Toronto (3-3-2) a 4-2 lead. asserted
Marchenko → have → game
Auston Matthews opened the scoring and John Tavares added two assists before the Sabres battled back in the third. asserted
Sabres → open → third
Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 saves for the Maple Leafs. asserted
Bobrovsky → make → Leafs
Marchenko was traded by the Columbus Blue Jackets to Toronto on Sept. 28, just before the season began and had only scored once in a Maple Leafs sweater before Thursday’s game. asserted
season → trade → game
Tavares left the game early in the third after he collided with Buffalo forward Josh Norris. asserted
he → leave → Norris
The former Toronto captain appeared to favour his left leg as he skated off the ice. asserted
he → appear → ice
Toronto was sloppy with the puck in the first period — Quinn’s first goal came on a bad giveaway by Maple Leafs defenceman Nick Blankenburg — but the Sabres only managed eight shots to Toronto’s 15 in the frame. asserted
Sabres → come → frame
Buffalo clawed its way back into the game in the third with Tavares not available to anchor the Leafs’ second line. asserted
Tavares → claw → line
Marchenko had played his first seven games with Toronto on the same line as Matthews but head coach Jim Hiller decided to shake up his forwards before Thursday’s game. asserted
Hiller → play → game
He bumped William Nylander up to the top line with Matthews and put Marchenko on Tavares’s wing. asserted
He → bump → wing
Tavares passed from the slot to Marchenko as he skated backwards across the Sabres’ crease. asserted
he → pass → crease
Marchenko slid the puck between his own legs and then flipped the puck past Luukkonen 13:10 into the first for a 2-1 Toronto lead. asserted
Marchenko → slide → lead
Key stat Special teams remained Toronto’s calling card. asserted
teams → remain → stat
It killed all three penalties, improving on its NHL-best 95.8 per cent rate entering the game. asserted
It → kill → game
The Maple Leafs went 1 for 3 on the power play, improving on its fifth-best 29.2 per cent scoring with the man advantage. asserted
Leafs → go → advantage
Up next Toronto: Hosts the New York Islanders on Saturday. asserted
Toronto → host → Saturday
Buffalo: Visits the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday. asserted
Buffalo → visit → Saturday
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2026. asserted
report → publish → Press
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