Panthers cruise past Maple Leafs 6-2 - BERITAJA

TORONTO – Eetu Luostarinen and Mackie Samoskevich had a extremity and 2 assists each arsenic the Florida Panthers cruised past the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2 connected Saturday night.

Tomas Nosek, pinch 2 goals, Cole Reinhardt and A.J. Greer, into the quiet nett to spell on pinch an assist, provided the remainder of the offence for Florida (38-38-4).

Daniil Tarasov made 17 saves for the Panthers, who snapped a four-game descent (0-3-1).

William Nylander replied pinch a brace of goals for Toronto (32-34-14), which sewage 19 stops from Joseph Woll successful the club’s 5th consecutive nonaccomplishment (0-4-1).

Both poised to miss the playoffs, the Maple Leafs and Panthers met successful the 2nd information of past spring’s post-season, pinch Florida topping Toronto successful 7 games earlier going connected to hoist the Stanley Cup for a 2nd consecutive June.

The Panthers, who started play 1 spot supra Saturday’s force astatine 26th wide successful the NHL standings, jumped retired to a 2-0 lead successful the first play earlier Nosek made it 3-0 successful the second.

Nylander scored connected a powerfulness play midway done the period, and added different to make it 3-2 done 40 minutes. Samoskevich made it 4-2 successful the third. Greer and Nosek iced it into the quiet net.

Takeaways

Panthers: The two-time defending champs person unopen a number of cardinal players down pinch the playoffs retired of scope and injuries piling up. Regulars done for the run see forwards Brad Marchand, Sam Reinhart and Evan Rodrigues, on pinch blueliners Aaron Ekblad, Dmitry Kulikov and Seth Jones. Wilmer Skoog made his NHL debut astatine forward.

Maple Leafs: Head coach Craig Berube said pursuing the greeting skate that goaltender Anthony Stolarz, defenceman Brandon Carlo and guardant Dakota Joshua are each done for the play pinch injuries. William Villeneuve made his convention debut connected defence.

Key Moment

Nosek bagged his first extremity of a play delayed by knee room erstwhile he fired past Woll astatine 1:32 of the second.

Key Stat

Despite a miserable play connected the crystal and successful the standings, Toronto entered Saturday pinch the league’s fourth-best punishment termination astatine 82.0 per cent.

Up Next

Panthers: Host the New York Rangers connected Monday

Maple Leafs: Host the Dallas Stars connected Monday.

This study by BERITAJA was first published April 11, 2026.