TORONTO – Sergei Bobrovsky built 34 will save, Matthew Tkachuk had three helps and the Florida Panthers survived a squandered two-purpose guide to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 on Tuesday night time in opening recreation of their second-spherical playoff series.
Sam Bennett experienced a objective and an support and Carter Verhaeghe and Nick Cousins also scored for Florida. Aleksander Barkov experienced two assists.
Matthew Knies had his 1st NHL goal and Michael Bunting also scored for Toronto. Ilya Samsonov stopped 24 shots.
Match 2 of the best-of-7 series is Thursday.
The Panthers had roared again from a 3-1 deficit to stun the document-environment Boston Bruins with 3 straight victories and take that initially-round sequence in 7 game titles.
The Maple Leafs finished a generation of distress Saturday when John Tavares scored in additional time of Activity 6 towards the Tampa Bay Lightning as Toronto advance in the postseason for the 1st time because 2004.
Active TAVARES
Apart from scoring the additional time target that gave the Maple Leafs their first sequence earn in 19 years, the Toronto captain and his wife just lately welcome their 3rd child, a daughter named Rae.
“An complete whirlwind for him,” Toronto middle Ryan O’Reilly explained prior to the activity.
MAURICE Appears Back
Panthers head coach Paul Maurice was behind the bench when the Carolina Hurricanes topped the Maple Leafs in the 2002 Japanese Meeting ultimate.
“I will not assume we gave up a five-on-5 intention in that series,” he claimed. “That was back again in when you could get away with clutching and grabbing.
“We were genuinely great at it.”
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