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Florida, 3-0 in overtime in the 2023 playoffs,
got the winner when Reinhart tucked a wraparound between the
legs of off-the-bench goalie Joseph Woll.
The Panthers registered their sixth straight playoff victory, a
franchise record.
Toronto, after winning three games at Tampa Bay in the opening
round, lost on the road for the first time in the 2023 playoffs.
Florida also got goals from Anthony Duclair and Carter
Verhaeghe, and Aaron Ekblad had two assists. Sergei Bobrovsky
made 22 saves for the win.
Maple Leafs goalie Ilya Samsonov, who stopped eight shots and
allowed no goals, was injured 37 seconds into the second period.
Woll replaced him with the Panthers on a power play.
Woll, a 24-year-old rookie from Boston College, entered Sunday
with just 12 games of NHL experience, including a playoff relief
outing on April 18. He saved 18 of the 21 shots he faced on
Sunday.
Toronto got goals from Erik Gustafsson, who played just his
second playoff game with the Maple Leafs after he was a healthy
scratch seven times, and Sam Lafferty, who scored his first ever
in the playoffs.
The Maple Leafs had two odd-man rushes in the first two-plus
minutes. On the first one, Auston Matthews hit the left post
with a shot.
On the second, Lafferty, skating on the left side, took a
cross-ice pass from David Kampf and beat Bobrovsky stick-side at
2:26.
Toronto nearly scored late in the opening period on another
two-on-one rush. This time, Bobrovsky made a stellar glove save
on Jake McCabe.
Thirty seconds into the second period, Duclair got free for a
breakaway. Samsonov made the save, but Toronto's Luke Schenn
tripped Verhaeghe, who was rushing in for the rebound. Schenn
then tumbled into Samsonov, who appeared to sustain an
upper-body injury, prompting his exit from the game.
On the ensuing power play, Duclair got free again, this time off
a stretch pass from Ekblad. Duclair made a
forehand-backhand-forehand move, beating Woll with one second
left on the man advantage.
Toronto took a 2-1 lead at 7:32 of the second as Gustafsson's
cross-ice pass to Kampf instead went in off the stick of
Panthers defenseman Marc Staal.
Florida tied the score at 12:28 of the middle period as Radko
Gudas' shot from the point changed direction after bouncing off
Verhaeghe's body.
--Field Level Media
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