Ottawa Daily Digest — 23 Dec 2025

Toronto Maple Leafs halt skid (6-3 over Pittsburgh)

• Score: Maple Leafs 6, Penguins 3 at Scotiabank Arena.
• Key player: Max Domi scored the winner with 8:25 remaining, ending a 23-game goalless streak; he also recorded an assist.
• Team record: Toronto improves to 16-15-5.
• Attendance: 18,979.

Context around the win and club turbulence

• The victory snapped a three-game losing streak and came after a disastrous road trip in which Toronto lost all three games by a combined 14-4 score.
• Off-ice issues: the team has endured a fired assistant coach and multiple protective press conferences from GM Brad Treliving; Treliving gave head coach Craig Berube a vote of confidence for the second time this season.
• Notable plays: William Nylander opened scoring (his first in 11 games); Bryan Rust tied the game 44 seconds later on a breakaway; Matias Maccelli and others contributed to the final score.

Individual performance highlights

• Max Domi: ended drought (23 games), winner + assist.
• William Nylander: first goal in 11 games.
• Team morale: coach Craig Berube called the win a boost ahead of Christmas.

Ontario man faces expanded sex-offence charges

• Case: unnamed 29-year-old from Woodstock, Ont., now faces additional sexual-offence charges involving 30 youth after a two-year RCMP probe in Nova Scotia.
• Timeline: initial charges in 2022; new charges laid May 2025; Canada-wide warrant issued August 2025; arrested Aug. 25, remanded Aug. 27, transported to Nova Scotia to face luring and related counts.

Lawyer linked to Ryan Wedding drug ring granted bail

• Defendant: Deepak Paradkar, accused “cocaine lawyer.”
• Bail: $5.2 million, with his wife and his wife’s cousin as sureties; terms subject to further submission.
• Court: Superior Court Justice Peter Bawden released him pending extradition hearing; judge noted it would be contrary to Paradkar’s interests to flee.

What to watch next

• Maple Leafs head to a holiday stretch; GM and coaching future will remain under scrutiny if results slip. Legal proceedings (sex-offence charges and extradition) will continue into 2026.