TORONTO (AP) — Dakota Joshua had a goal and an assist, Joseph Woll made 40 saves and added an assist, and the Toronto Maple Leafs topped the Rangers 4-3 on Wednesday night, eliminating New York from playoff contention.
Jake McCabe, Nick Robertson and John Tavares had the other goals for Toronto and Matias Maccelli added two assists. Woll picked up the second assist on Joshua’s goal for his first NHL point.
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Toronto Maple Leafs forward John Tavares (91) hits the post on a goal attempt as New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin (31) reacts during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nicholas Robertson (89) drives the puck past New York Rangers defenceman Will Borgen (17) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Rangers defenceman Braden Schneider (4) blocks a shot on teammate Igor Shesterkin (31) as Toronto Maple Leafs forward John Tavares (91) looks on during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Jake McCabe (22) gets checked by New York Rangers forward Tye Kartye (24) during the third period of an NHL hockey game, in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll (60) makes a save as teammate Troy Stecher (28) and New York Rangers forward Taylor Raddysh (14) look on during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Mika Zibanejad scored two goals and Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and two assists for the Rangers, while Igor Shesterkin stopped 14 shots. Adam Fox chipped in two assists.
New York, which will finish below the postseason cutline for a second straight season, sits second-to-last in the overall standings. Toronto ranks 21st and is on the way to missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016.
Tavares scored his 26th goal of the season at 11:57 of the third period to make it 4-2 when he ripped a shot past Shesterkin after Toronto had built a 3-0 lead in the second.
New York's Adam Sykora made his NHL debut after being called up from the Hartford Wolf Pack. The 21-year-old winger, selected 63rd overall at the 2022 draft, had 12 goals and 17 assists for 29 points across 62 games in the AHL this season.
Toronto's William Nylander is one point away from passing his father, Michael, for family bragging rights. The winger has 679 points in 741 regular-season games. The elder Nylander registered 679 points in 920 contests.
New York, which tied a dubious franchise record with just 10 shots in Monday’s 2-1 home loss to the Ottawa Senators, directed 14 attempts on target in Wednesday’s opening period. The visitors had 17 more shots on Woll in the second.
Rangers: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night.
Maple Leafs: Visit the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.
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Toronto Maple Leafs forward John Tavares (91) hits the post on a goal attempt as New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin (31) reacts during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nicholas Robertson (89) drives the puck past New York Rangers defenceman Will Borgen (17) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Rangers defenceman Braden Schneider (4) blocks a shot on teammate Igor Shesterkin (31) as Toronto Maple Leafs forward John Tavares (91) looks on during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Jake McCabe (22) gets checked by New York Rangers forward Tye Kartye (24) during the third period of an NHL hockey game, in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll (60) makes a save as teammate Troy Stecher (28) and New York Rangers forward Taylor Raddysh (14) look on during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Two teenage boys who used artificial intelligence to create fake nude photos of their classmates at an exclusive private school in Pennsylvania received probation Wednesday after dozens of victims described the images' traumatizing effect on them.
The boys were 14 at the time. They admitted this month that they made about 350 images, showing at least 59 girls under 18, along with other victims who so far have not been identified.
Authorities and the girls themselves said the boys took images of the girls from school photos, yearbooks, Instagram, TikTok and FaceTime chats in 2023 and 2024, and morphed them with images of adults depicting nudity or sexual activity.
More than 100 students and parents from Lancaster Country Day School were in court to hear victims describe the shock of having to identify their own faces in pornographic photos to detectives. Juvenile proceedings in Pennsylvania are normally closed, but this was opened by the judge, providing an unusual opportunity for the community to be seen and heard.
The girls described the fallout — anxiety attacks, a loss of trust, problems focusing on schoolwork and a fear that the images may someday surface in unexpected ways.
The two defendants stood stone-faced throughout, flanked by their lawyers and parents, as they were called pedophiles, “sick and twisted” and perverted.
“I will never understand why they did this,” one victim told Judge Leonard Brown, saying it “destroyed my innocence.”
One teen told Brown “how excruciating it is to bring these feelings up again and again.” Another choked back tears as she excoriated one of the defendants for expressing “fake empathy” as girls confided with him about their pain, before it became known that he had been involved. Still another said all of her friends transferred schools, and that she “needed trauma therapy to even walk around my neighborhood.”
The defendants declined several opportunities to comment to the judge, who said he had not heard either boy take responsibility or apologize.
“This has been a regrettable, long, torturous process for everyone involved,” said Heidi Freese, defense attorney for one of the defendants. “There were very interesting, underlying legal issues surrounding the charges in this case and those will be decided on a different day in a different case.”
The other defendant’s lawyers emailed a statement late Wednesday that said he was “extremely remorseful for his part in the AI-generated images and very sorry for any hurt he caused.”
Defense attorneys Adam Szilagyi and Christopher Sarno wrote that the images, which the lawyers said their client did not intend to be public, “contained nudity but did not contain any representations of sexual conduct or activity.”
They said their client did not use “any AI generator himself nor did he disseminate any of the images.” Szilagyi said in a follow-up text that his client was accountable as part of the conspiracy and that both of the boys “gathered and exchanged the unaltered/original images that were put into the generator.”
Brown ordered each to perform 60 hours of community service, have no contact with the victims and pay an unspecified amount of restitution. If they don’t have any additional legal problems, Brown said, the case can be expunged after two years.
As he imposed his sentence, Brown said that if they were adults, they probably would be headed for state prison. He said they should “take this opportunity to really examine” themselves.
The resolution of the Pennsylvania case comes days after three teenagers in Tennessee sued Elon Musk's xAI, claiming the company’s Grok tools morphed their real photos into explicitly sexual images. The high school students are seeking class-action status to represent what the lawsuit says are thousands of people who were similarly victimized as minors.
The scandal in Pennsylvania led to a student protest, criminal charges against the two teenagers and the departure of leaders at the school, which says it has about 600 students K-12, class sizes averaging just 12 kids, and “an endowment in excess of $25 million.”
Nadeem Bezar, a Philadelphia lawyer who represents at least 10 of the victims, said Tuesday he expects to file a claim “against the school and anybody else we think has culpability in these deepfakes being created and disseminated.”
He said he has not yet seen the photos but expects the legal process to determine “exactly when and where and how the school knew, how the boys created these images, what platforms they used to create these images and how they were disseminated.”
As AI has become accessible and powerful, lawmakers across the country have passed laws aimed at barring deepfakes.
President Donald Trump signed the Take it Down Act last year, making it illegal to publish intimate images including deepfakes without consent, and requiring websites and social media sites to remove such material within 48 hours of being notified by a victim.
Associated Press writers Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield, New Jersey, and Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed.
Lancaster Country Day School in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Lancaster Country Day School in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Shown is the Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
People enter the Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
