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's winner with under six minutes to go in regulation as the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 on Thursday.stopped 29 shots for Tampa , which became just the second team in NHL history to win more than 60 games in a season. NHL scoring leaderMitch Marner replied for Toronto .The Leafs wrap up the regular season Saturday in Montreal against the Canadiens, while the Lightning visit the Boston Bruins.
The game in front of a crowd of 19,400 at Scotiabank Arena was meaningless in the standings with both clubs locked in their spots — Tampa clinched the Presidents' Trophy for the NHL's best regular-season record on March 18, while Toronto is cemented in the Atlantic Division's No. 3 seed. Down 1-0 after the first, the Lightning got even at 5:37 of the second with the Leafs on a power play. Stamkos took a long pass frombefore snapping a shot glove side on Andersen that the Toronto goalie could only get a piece of for the Tampa captain's 44th goal of the campaign, and first while short-handed.rang a shot off the post behind Andersen with the team's playing 4 on 4 right off a neutral zone faceoff after Stamkos equalized.
Toronto opened the scoring at 4:41 on the first period when Marner disrupted a Lightning attack at the Leafs' blue line, got the puck back fromto create a 2-on-1 break the other way and beat Vasilevskiy between the pads for his 26th.
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