William Nylander leads Maple Leafs over Panthers in OT

William Nylander scored his second goal of the night at 1:53 of overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Florida Panthers 5-4 on Tuesday.

Auston Matthews, Dryden Hunt and Alexander Kerfoot provided the rest of the offence for Toronto . Nylander added an assist for a three-point performance.

Aleksander Barkov, with a goal and an assist, Carter Verhaeghe, Anton Lundell and Josh Mahura replied for Florida , which got 32 stops from Sergei Bobrovsky and was denied its first three-game winning streak of the season. Leading 3-2 after the first, the Panthers chased Murray on just their eighth shot on a power play 1:44 in the second when Barkov fired his 12th.

The Panthers, who started the day four points below the playoff cutline after winning last season's Presidents' Trophy, opened the scoring at 1:52 of the first when Verhaeghe ripped his 21st.

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