TORONTO (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog scored his second goal of the game early in the third period to put the Colorado Avalanche ahead for good in a 6-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday night.
Devon Toews, with a goal and an assist, Brock Nelson, Artturi Lehkonen and Martin Necas in an empty net also scored for Colorado. Cale Makar added two assists and Mackenzie Blackwood made 28 saves.
Click to Gallery
Toronto Maple Leafs' Ryan Tverberg (77) can't get the puck past Colorado Avalanche goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood (39) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Colorado Avalanche's Noah Juulsen (47) and Toronto Maple Leafs' Teddy Blueger (73) battle for the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) stops Colorado Avalanche's Artturi Lehkonen (62) at the net during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs' Zack MacEwen (19) and Colorado Avalanche's Gabriel Landeskog (92) face off during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Darren Raddysh and Easton Cowan, with a goal and an assist each, and Jack Roslovic scored for Toronto, which has lost four games in a row and dropped six of its last seven.
Sergei Bobrovksy finished with 22 stops.
The 38-year-old goaltender — a two-time Stanley Cup champion and two-time Vezina Trophy winner as the NHL’s top netminder — has allowed three goals or more in 12 of his 13 starts since signing in free agency July 1.
Landeskog scored the go-ahead goal at 5:02 of the third, just 51 seconds after Roslovic tied the score 3-3.
Raddysh’s blast that gave Toronto a 1-0 lead was clocked at 92.89 miles per hour — the fourth fastest shot to result in a goal across the league this season, according to the NHL.
Roslovic (lower-body injury) and shutdown defenseman Chris Tanev (load management) returned to the Toronto lineup after sitting out Sunday’s 4-0 loss to the New Jersey Devils.
Morgan Rielly (lower-body injury) joined a long list of players receiving treatment in the trainer’s room. The veteran blueliner is listed as day-to-day, while center Colton Sissons (lower-body injury) is week-to-week. Kirill Marchenko (lower body) along with Marshall Rifai (lower body) and Nick Blankenburg (upper body) also remain sidelined and week-to-week.
Makar left Sunday’s practice in Denver with an unspecified injury, but took part in Colorado’s morning skate and declared himself ready for Tuesday.
Avalanche: At the Ottawa Senators on Thursday.
Maple Leafs: Host the Minnesota Wild on Thursday.
See AP’s full NHL coverage here
Toronto Maple Leafs' Ryan Tverberg (77) can't get the puck past Colorado Avalanche goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood (39) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Colorado Avalanche's Noah Juulsen (47) and Toronto Maple Leafs' Teddy Blueger (73) battle for the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) stops Colorado Avalanche's Artturi Lehkonen (62) at the net during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Maple Leafs' Zack MacEwen (19) and Colorado Avalanche's Gabriel Landeskog (92) face off during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — With a lockout looming and team executives vowing to take a business-as-usual approach to the offseason, the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres are among six teams set to meet with top free-agent pitcher Tarik Skubal.
Skubal's planned meetings were disclosed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity because those details had not been announced. The person did not disclose the other teams.
Baseball's collective bargaining agreement is scheduled to expire at 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 1, and management is expected to immediately initiate the sport's 10th work stoppage since 1972.
“From my perspective, I look at this as a business-as-usual offseason until they tell us otherwise,” Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns said. “So we're going through this as though we're going to have a full, complete offseason, and I think that's the best way to operate.”
Major League Baseball has proposed a hard cap of $258.2 million for 2028 and a floor of $180.2 million, using luxury tax payrolls with average annual values. A team would be allowed to remain as low as 90% of the floor in 2028, which would be $162.18 million, but would have to spend the entire amount of the floor over a three-year period.
Eight teams would have to reduce current payroll by a combined $528 million to get under the proposed 2028 cap, according to MLB: Boston, the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the New York Yankees and Mets, Philadelphia, San Diego and Toronto.
Players have vowed never to accept a cap and say they are prepared to fight one for as long as it takes, as they did during a 7 1/2-month strike in 1994 and '95 that led to the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years.
Agents have expressed worry that anticipation of a cap might cool the free-agent market. Trades and signings will be frozen during a stoppage, as they were during a 99-day lockout in 2021-22.
On the day before the lockout began in 2021, there were 27 announced contracts that totaled more than $1.4 billion.
“In terms of our process of evaluating players, valuing players, talking to agents and individual players, we’ve been kind of doing what we do every offseason and put ourselves in position to make decisions,” Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller said. “The possibility of having a different economic system, you take that into consideration, but it’s really hard to predict what’s going to happen, what the exact system is going to be, so I think ultimately if we see something that we think makes sense for us both in the short and long term, then I think we’re going to be prepared to act on it.”
Skubal was 12-7 with a 2.72 ERA in 26 starts this year for Detroit and the Los Angeles Dodgers, who acquired him on Aug. 2 for three prospects to join a rotation that included Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Skubal could top the largest contract for a pitcher, Yamamoto’s $325 million, 12-year deal with the Dodgers that started in 2024.
“As you look at the construction of your roster," Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes said, the front office is "making sure you’re balancing and not setting yourself up to potentially hit a slow point or making sure you're not doing things that disrupt what could potentially be — what we want is a very long window and making sure that stays open.”
Skubal heads a relatively weak free-agent class that also includes Freddy Peralta, Michael King, Seiya Suzuki and Randy Arozarena.
“I’m approaching business as usual here until told otherwise,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “I’ve been given a budget by Hal (Steinbrenner) and we’re trying to now connect with teams and agents as the winter has just started to see what is feasible and what isn’t feasible and try to game plan off of that information that we’re gathering now.”
The Los Angeles Angels might be more reticent than most teams to make major moves. The Angels announced on Sept. 1 an agreement for Arte Moreno to sell the franchise to Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, which controls the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams, Premier League champion Arsenal, the NBA’s Denver Nuggets, the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche and Major League Soccer’s Colorado Rapids. The sale is subject to MLB approval, and a closing has not been scheduled.
“We're positioning new leadership (so) that they can be nimble for whatever direction they want to go,” interim GM John Mozeliak said. “And so over the next few days really it’s my responsibility just to get an understanding of what teams have, who they have interest in and maybe what they’re willing to do in a trade type of discussion. In terms of free agency, still just trying to understand what that looks like in terms of who we think we might target and when new leadership gets in place."
See AP’s full MLB coverage here
Brian Cashman, general manager of the New York Yankees, speaks with members of the media during Major League Baseball's general manager meetings Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A.J. Preller, president of baseball operations and general manager of the San Diego Padres, speaks with members of the media during Major League Baseball's general manager meetings Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Brandon Gomes, general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, speaks with members of the media during Major League Baseball's general manager meetings Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
David Stearns, president of baseball operations for the New York Mets, speaks with members of the media during Major League Baseball's general manager meetings Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
FILE -Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tarik Skubal talks to reporters ahead of Game 1 of baseball's National League Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Oct. 10, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kyla Wolf, File)
