FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) — Sam Reinhart scored 3:02 into overtime and the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Sunday night time to just take a commanding 3- guide in their Japanese Meeting semifinal sequence.
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Reinhart dumped the puck off the boards powering the web to established up his sport-winner, taking a pass back from Anton Lundell and scoring to give Florida its very first 3- sequence lead in 27 many years.
Anthony Duclair and Carter Verhaeghe scored for Florida. Sam Lafferty and Erik Gustafsson scored for Toronto.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 22 shots for the Panthers. Joseph Woll stopped 18 of the 21 he confronted for the Maple Leafs just after he relieved starter Ilya Samsonov, who stopped all eight shots he saw prior to leaving early in the second interval with an injuries.
Activity 4 is Wednesday night.
Reinhart’s goal for that 3- lead means it is time for the Maple Leafs to devote the upcoming a few times hearing about the most dreaded of stats three online games into a very best-of-7 — the just one about how only four golf equipment have erased these types of a deficit in hockey heritage. Toronto is a single of those 4, coming from 3- down to conquer Detroit in the 1942 Cup title sequence.
Samsonov still left the ice 37 seconds into the 2nd time period with an undisclosed harm. He was dominated out prior to the third period of time began.
The perform commenced with Samsonov halting a shot by Duclair, as Verhaeghe came down the slot chasing the rebound.
Verhaeghe acquired tripped by Toronto’s Luke Schenn, and Schenn also crashed into Samsonov on the exact play. Samsonov remained down for far more than a minute, inevitably acquired to his toes and skated to the Toronto bench — heading specifically down the tunnel to the Maple Leafs’ locker room.
Woll changed Samsonov, coming in chilly to face the Florida electric power perform. Woll stopped the to start with shot he faced, but Duclair scored with 1 2nd still left on the electrical power play to tie the game at 1-1.
Toronto led 1- and 2-1, only to see Florida arrive back with the tying purpose every single time.
Lafferty a single-timed a move from David Kampf house just 2:26 into the contest to end off a 2-on-1 and open up the scoring.
Duclair tied it on the power enjoy shortly soon after Samsonov departed, only to see Toronto reclaim the direct when Gustafsson’s wrister caromed in off Marc Staal’s adhere halfway by means of the second. Verhaeghe tied it 5 minutes later and to the 3rd they went, tied at 2-2.
About THE RINK
Leafs C Auston Matthews took a puck off the outdoors of his correct wrist in the 3rd period of time, was shaken up and remained in the recreation — appearing to not even overlook a change. … Toronto is now 34-47 all-time in Activity 3s. Florida is now 5-8. … There had been only two penalties referred to as in regulation, each versus Toronto in the next interval.
WOLL TIES
There is a single massive tie amongst Woll and the Panthers — he was Boston College’s go-to netminder for 3 many years, just before Spencer Knight took in excess of for the Eagles in the 2019-20 period.
Knight has been with the Panthers for areas of three seasons and has been out since February in the NHL’s participant support software.
THE CAPTAIN
Miami Warmth captain Udonis Haslem — wearing a Duclair jersey — was at the sport with some teammates together with Heat guard Gabe Vincent, and did his aspect to get admirers engaged by beating a drum at a person close of the rink soon right before match time.
“I bought great with Duclair a pair several years in the past, and explained to him that when I experienced time I would arrive out,” said Haslem, whose Warmth guide New York in a second-spherical sequence 2-1 with Recreation 4 in Miami on Monday. “It is awesome in this article correct now. South Florida sports, we constantly truly feel like the underdogs, but these men on the Panthers, the heart they play with, it is really inspiring to see.”
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