First Period

This period was as different from the last game as you can get.

Mitch Marner set the tone.

Great follow up a few minutes later:

Better follow up:

John Tavares was called for tripping shortly after, and he picked up the puck coming out of the box and had a great chance.

Tampa had the puck a lot, however, and they kept hitting the posts. Eventually Nick Perbix got one past Anthony Stolarz:

After one, it was 2-1 Leafs.

Five-on-five Corsi was 25-23 for the Lightning, but the Expected Goals were 1.26 to 0.92 for the Leafs. The Lightning were never near the net:

Second Period

Luke Glendenning was not on the ice for Tampa, leaving them with 10 forwards, since they started the game playing 11-7, John Cooper's favourite clever scheme.

There's been a lot of Leafs trying the backhand against Vasilevskiy, for some reason.

Scott Laughton gave the puck away right in front of Stolarz. After some attempts to regain control, Laughton took an interference call that brought the chaos to a halt.

Tampa had a 50 second power play to end the period, and there were a couple of scary moments, but the score stayed 2-1 after two periods.

The Lightning with 71% Corsi in that period, and they had a little bit better shot quality, but between blocked shots and misses by the Lightning, the Shots on Goal were even. Not ideal, but the Leafs made the best of a bad situation – that being their inability to exit their own zone. Honk if you've heard that before.

Third Period

Tampa was on the power play for just over a minute to start the period and they didn't need all of it.

Nikita Kucherov to Oliver Bjorkstrand with the penalty killers up a little too high.

Immediately Emil Lilleberg went off for a high stick. Tavares couldn't start the power play because he was still bleeding.

Matt Knies hit the post on the power play but he got it all the way in on his next try.

Erik Cernak got into it with Matt Knies, and they both go off with some of the second power play to go.

Domi joined him on the next play to negate the last 26 seconds of the power play.

The Leafs PK was much better this time, and they escape unscathed.

The Leafs pinned the Lightning for a long shift. (For a damn change.)

The Lightning fans wanted (very badly) a penalty on Nick Robertson earlier. A delayed penalty call on McMann for a cross check resulted in a short, sharp fight between Bobby McMann and Brayden Point.

The cross check to Robertson went unnoticed but he got to serve the McMann minor. It was almost as good.

Victor Hedman scored on the resulting power play to tie the game.

Matthews blocked a shot off his foot and looked hurt, but he took the next shift.

Stolarz helped the Leafs get to overtime.

The power play the big driver for the Lightning in the third:

Overtime

The month of April makes three-on-three seem very irrelevant, but it was exciting.

Stolarz and Vasilevskiy with some good saves.

Matthew Knies! In overtime. Final score was 4-3.

Let your life be as golden as Matt Knies' is in Amalie Arena.

Next game is Saturday at home to the Habs.

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