Nosek pushed it to 3-0 at 1:32 of the second period when he stepped into the slot from the blue line and shot over Woll\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got down 2-0, two lucky goals by them but I thought our second period was our best period,\u201d Toronto coach Craig Berube said. \u201cWe gave up that third one, we shouldn\u2019t be giving that goal up. We made a push, got some opportunities late but we didn\u2019t execute on our chances. We had three breakaways tonight and didn\u2019t get a sniff on any of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Maple Leafs cut it to 3-1 at 10:55 on the power play. Nylander collected a rebound, skated up to the high slot and shot past Tarasov\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n
Nylander scored again at 13:16 to pull Toronto to within one when he stole the puck from Vinnie Hinostroza<\/a>\u00a0and shot past Tarasov\u2019s glove from the slot, making it 3-2.<\/p>\n \u201cAll these games are weird when you\u2019re out of the playoffs,\u201d Nylander said. \u201cAs of late I think we\u2019ve been competing good but tonight, I think they were competing better than us.\u201d<\/p>\n Samoskevich made it 4-2 at 4:13 of the third period, one-timing the return pass on a give-and-go with Greer in the slot.<\/p>\n Woll is 0-3-1 in his past four starts while allowing 19 goals.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom my perspective, I\u2019m trying to approach it like any other game and not get too concerned with where we\u2019re at but at the same time, I\u2019m obviously not very happy with the results recently,\u201d Woll said. \u201cI try to stay very focused on the process but at the same time, would much rather be winning here.\u201d<\/p>\n Greer shot into an empty net at 15:56 to make it 5-2 and Nosek added another empty-net goal at 18:07 for the 6-2 final.<\/p>\n \u201cWe try to play every game like it\u2019s playoffs, it doesn\u2019t matter what it is, we try to play our best and build something that will make us good and to our identity,\u201d Nosek said.<\/p>\n NOTES: Panthers forward Wilmer Skoog<\/a>, 26, made his NHL debut. He was plus-1 with two shots in 15:49\u2026 Maple Leafs defenseman William Villeneuve<\/a>, 24, made his NHL debut, playing 18:45. He was selected No. 122 by the Maple Leafs in the 2020 NHL Draft and played 224 games with Toronto of the American Hockey League from 2020-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nosek pushed it to 3-0 at 1:32 of the second period when he stepped into the slot from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-601781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}