{"id":532426,"date":"2026-03-31T07:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532426\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:02:09","slug":"tavares-scores-with-5-seconds-left-in-ot-maple-leafs-recover-to-edge-ducks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532426\/","title":{"rendered":"Tavares scores with 5 seconds left in OT, Maple Leafs recover to edge Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tavares, who also had an assist, scored on a redirection in front off a pass from Morgan Rielly<\/a>\u00a0after the Maple Leafs rallied from a two-goal deficit midway through the third period.<\/p>\n

Leo Carlsson<\/a>\u2019s second goal tied it 4-4 for Anaheim with 1:39 remaining in the third when he scored on a rebound from the left face-off circle will goaltender Ville Husso<\/a> pulled for the extra skater.<\/p>\n

William Nylander<\/a> had a goal and three assists, Rielly had a goal and an assist, and Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a> had two assists for the Maple Leafs (32-30-13), who have won three of four (3-1-0). Anthony Stolarz<\/a>\u00a0made 28 saves.<\/p>\n

Cutter Gauthier<\/a> scored before leaving with an upper-body injury, and John Carlson<\/a> scored his first goal with the Ducks (41-28-5), who have lost two in a row but have points in seven of their past eight (5-1-2). Jackson LaCombe<\/a>\u00a0had two assists, and Husso made 23 saves.<\/p>\n

Anaheim extended its first-place lead in the Pacific Division to four points over the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n

Rielly scored at 17:00 of the third period to give the Maple Leafs a 4-3 lead after they trailed 3-1 at the start of the third.<\/p>\n

After the Maple Leafs killed a two-minute 5-on-3 power play in the opening minutes, the Ducks took a 1-0 lead at 6:43 of the first after Troy Terry<\/a>\u00a0made a cross-ice feed to Carlsson on a rush and he scored into the open side of the net.<\/p>\n

Anaheim was on its second power play of the game when Gauthier appeared to surprise Stolarz with a wrist shot from near the wall that squeezed through his pads for a 2-0 lead at 9:46.<\/p>\n

Gauthier, who leads the Ducks with 38 goals, left later in the first period with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n

Tavares scored on the power play to cut it to 2-1 at 14:18, shooting a bouncing rebound into the net from between the hash marks.<\/p>\n

Carlson extended it to 3-1 at 11:33 of the second period. LaCombe brought the puck into the Toronto zone before dropping a pass for his defense partner, who skated into the right face-off circle before scoring with a wrist shot over the glove of Stolarz.<\/p>\n

Carlson was acquired from the Washington Capitals on March 5 for a conditional first-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and a third-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

Matthew Knies<\/a> cut it to 3-2 at 6:55 of the third with a snap shot from above the left circle while on Toronto’s fifth power play. Nylander then scored on a breakaway to tie it 3-3 at 10:14 off a turnover by Ducks forward Beckett Sennecke<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tavares, who also had an assist, scored on a redirection in front off a pass from Morgan Rielly\u00a0after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-532426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","14":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116322510630595618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}