Kadri's OT goal pushes Leafs past Lightning
TAMPA, Fla. -- The Toronto Maple Leafs won their fourth consecutive road game, getting an overtime power-play goal on a rebound by Nazem Kadri with 1:23 left for a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday at Amalie Arena.
Valtteri Filppula drew an overtime penalty when he skated into Toronto goalie Antoine Bibeau, getting called for goalie interference. The Lightning held off most of the power play, but Toronto got the win when Kadri netted his 13th goal of the season to beat Andrei Vasilevskiy.
Tampa Bay (18-15-4) had won three of four coming in, while Toronto (16-12-7) went a perfect 4-for-4 on their road trip with Thursday's win.
Vasilevskiy stopped 32 shots, while Bibeau made 25 saves.
The two teams played through a scoreless third quarter to set up overtime, with neither team getting too many scoring chances late.
Tampa Bay's Ondrej Palat had a shot go off the crossbar with 5:11 left, and the Lightning got a late power play when Jonathan Drouin was tripped by Zach Hyman with 3:09 left, but Tampa Bay couldn't convert on the only power play of the final period. Tampa Bay outshot Toronto 11-10 in the third, sending both teams to overtime for the second night in a row.
As they did Wednesday, the Lightning erased a two-goal deficit, this time with a pair of goals in the final eight minutes of the second period.
Toronto jumped out to a 2-0 lead,. Rookie phenom Auston Matthews got a loose puck off a faceoff and put it through Vasilevskiy's legs for his 18th goal with 5:14 left in the opening period.
That lead stood for nearly a period, until Leafs center Tyler Bozak made it 2-0 with his seventh goal of the season, again on a loose puck off a rebound from a shot by James van Riemsdyk with 10:34 left in the second.
Bibeau, making just his second start of the season, kept the Lightning off the scoreboard for the first 30 minutes, then ran into trouble.
Brian Boyle scored on a backhanded shot as he fell in front of the net for his ninth goal of the season with 7:48 left in the middle period.
When Toronto failed to clear the puck late in the period, Palat got the loose puck and tied the game at 2-2 with 2:22 left, getting his sixth goal of the season and second in as many nights.
NOTES: The Lightning lost rookie C Brayden Point for four to six weeks due to an upper-body injury sustained Wednesday late in an overtime win against the Montreal Canadiens. C Yanni Gourde was called up from AHL Syracuse and made his season debut. He played in two games last season, logging an assist. C Vladislav Namestnikov, who was boarded hard late in the Wednesday game, did not dress Thursday because of an upper-body injury, and C Cedric Paquette missed a fourth consecutive game with a lower-body injury. RW Erik Condra was Tampa Bay's lone healthy scratch. ... Toronto had D Frank Corrado, LW Josh Leivo and C Byron Froese as healthy scratches. ... Both teams were coming off late wins Wednesday night -- Tampa Bay rallied from two goals down with 10 minutes to play to beat Montreal in overtime, and Toronto beat the Florida Panthers in a shootout.