![]() Tampa got the game’s first power play with 28 seconds left in the period, but the Leafs survived and got to the intermission despite Lightning captain Steven Stamkos rattling Campbell’s mask on a wicked one-timer. Palat jumped on the turnover and moved in on Campbell before firing his third of the playoffs under Campbell’s blocker with 2:22 left in the period. Kerfoot made an ill-advised drop pass in the neutral zone to no one. ![]() Toronto had a couple great chances early in overtime, but Vasilevskiy was there to deny both Kerfoot and Ilya Mikheyev.Īfter getting their doors blown off early on the same ice in Game 4 on the way to suffering a 7-3 loss, the Leafs had a decent start, but went down with the teams playing 4-on-4 late in the first. The Leafs complained Tampa forward Brayden Point’s chin strap was undone during the sequence, but the goal stood.īrandon Hagel then had a glorious chance to give Tampa the lead late in regulation, but he missed the net from in tight with Campbell at his mercy. The Lightning got a two-man advantage for 1:45 midway through the third when David Kampf and Alexander Kerfoot were whistled for high-sticking in quick succession, and Kucherov tied the score at 9:20 when he fired his second on Campbell. Toronto’s captain then gave his team - which also fought back from a 2-0 deficit at home to win Game 5 by a 4-3 scoreline - its first lead of the night with 7.8 seconds remaining on the clock when he buried his third in as many games inside a stunned Amalie Arena. Tavares then tied it with 33.7 seconds left in the period when Vasilevskiy couldn’t control the rebound with Jason Spezza swatting at the fluttering puck before it bounced over the goal line. Trailing 2-0 in the second period after Cirelli’s highlight-reel effort with Tampa short-handed, Matthews - named one of three finalists for the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP earlier in the day - responded with his fourth of the playoffs 54 seconds later when he tipped Mark Giordano’s point shot. ![]() 880 heading into Thursday - but did enough on this night to get his team to Game 7. The 2019 Vezina Trophy winner and last season’s Conn Smythe Trophy recipient hasn’t been his usual stellar self in the series - his save percentage stood at. 945 save percentage with five shutouts in 16 victories before Thursday. Vasilevskiy has won each and every one of the contests that make up Tampa’s 17-0 record after a loss in the last three playoffs, putting up a. Toronto is 7-2 all-time at home in Game 7s, but lost at Scotiabank Arena last season after blowing a 3-1 series lead against the Montreal Canadiens. The Leafs will now head home for Saturday’s Game 7 desperately looking to exorcise the demons of past spring failures with the weight of history and expectation hanging around their collective neck. ![]()
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