With Max Pacioretty's 5:39, the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday's 6th game of the first round of the Eastern Conference on Thursday, the host Ottawa senators against a 4-2-series victory.
The 36-year-old advanced, who kidnapped the last two months of the normal season and the first two matches of the season with an unexplained injury, helped Maple Leafs to overcome 2-0 advantage with the goal and help of winning games. William Nylander of Toronto celebrated his 29th birthday with two goals and help, and Auston Matthews scored goals.
The goalkeeper Anthony Stolarz stopped 20 shots for Maple Leafs for confrontation with the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, who closed the seven best series and defended in the next round.
Brady Tkachuk and David Perron Ottawa scored goals, Thomas Chabot helped both. Linus Ullmark finished 19 savings.
After 4-0 at home on Tuesday, Maple Leafs appeared on Thursday as an aggressive, and then they took the game late to move to the second round of playoffs for the third time since 2004.
Toronto came forward thanks to several senator errors. Tkachuk was called to intervene with 1:59 in the first period after hitting Brandon Carlo to Center Ice.
Matthews responded with a goal in a shot that found the narrow space between Post and Ullmark's skate in the opening period with 1:10. Mitch Marner and Nylander took assists.
Nylander took advantage of a turnover of a turnover caused by Nick Jensen in Blue Line and doubled the leadership in the second place.
Tkachuk is the second 12:32. Otawa won Faceoff after a Cream Call against Leafs. The Captain of the Senators directed the end of Chabot's shooting from the left point of the Stolarz.
Perron is 7:20 in the arrangement. However, Toronto's oldest active player put his team back shorter than two minutes when the senators could not clean the disk after a Toronto one -on -one attack.
Empty Netter, where Nylander stayed 19 seconds, provided the victory of Maple Leafs.
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