Bobrovsky stops 23 shots, Panthers top Maple Leafs 2-0 in Game 4 and tie series at 2 games apiece

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The Florida Panthers bushed the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-0 connected Sunday nighttime successful Game 4 to adjacent the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Toronto volition look to bounce backmost successful Game 5 astatine location connected Wednesday

Tim Reynolds · The Associated Press

· Posted: May 11, 2025 10:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll (60) stops the puck changeable by Florida Panthers halfway Aleksander Barkov.

Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 shots for his 5th vocation playoff shutout, portion Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Bennett scored and the Florida Panthers bushed the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-0 connected Sunday nighttime successful Game 4 to adjacent the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Verhaeghe scored connected a powerfulness play successful the archetypal period, Bennett added the security people with 7:50 near successful the crippled and Bobrovsky did the rest. He's the archetypal goalie with 2 shutouts this twelvemonth successful the playoffs.

Joseph Woll stopped 35 shots for the Maple Leafs, who took a 2-0 bid pb with a brace of location wins and present instrumentality to Toronto for Game 5 connected Wednesday nighttime with the bid tied.

Verhaeghe's extremity came connected Florida's 4th powerfulness play of the archetypal period. Matthew Tkachuk, on the left-wing boards, threaded a walk done the slot and past 2 defenders onto the waiting instrumentality of Verhaeghe — who slammed a one-timer past Woll.

It was portion of a spree of shots aboriginal for Florida. The Panthers took 21 of the game's archetypal 26 shots connected net, simply controlling play for agelong stretches and keeping each the enactment successful beforehand of Woll. He held firm, clip and again, keeping Toronto successful it.

Florida Panthers manager Paul Maurice shouts instructions astatine his team.

Late successful the 3rd period, Bennett said enough.

He came successful from Woll's left, with Verhaeghe connected the different broadside of the slot, past waited for a passing lane. When nary appeared, Bennett simply went to the beforehand of the net, watched Woll commit, past pushed the puck into the nett earlier punching the air.

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Florida has won 25 consecutive playoff games — going backmost to May 5, 2022 — erstwhile starring aft 2 periods, matching Edmonton for the astir wins successful the NHL implicit that span. The Oilers are 25-3 erstwhile starring aft 2 since that date.

Leafs defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson — portion of the Florida squad that won the Stanley Cup past play — delivered a changeable to the caput and cervix country of Panthers guardant Evan Rodrigues about 5 minutes into successful the 3rd period. It was primitively called a major, past downgraded to a insignificant aft review.

Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly battles Florida Panthers near helping A.J. Greer for the puck.

The Maple Leafs not lone killed the punishment off, but they adjacent had the champion accidental of those 2 minutes erstwhile Matthew Knies skated successful connected a short-handed try. He missed the net.

That mightiness person been the past large accidental for Toronto.

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