Mitch Marner scored 19 seconds into overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the New York Rangers 3-2 on Wednesday night.
Pontus Holmberg and Timothy Liljegren had the goals in regulation for Toronto . Ilya Samsonov stopped 26 shots.Marner wove his way past all three Rangers skaters in the 3-on-3 extra period after Toronto won the faceoff at centre before tucking his 18th goal of the season past an outstretched Shesterkin.
Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe kept the Marner-Auston Matthews and John Tavares-William Nylander combinations intact Wednesday after reuniting the duos after Monday's flat first period against the New York Islanders, but didn't get the same spark as in that 5-2 victory. Toronto started to push as the period wore on and finally beat Shesterkin, who won last season's Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top netminder, when Liljegren scored his fourth with 4:11 left in regulation on a broken play.The Leafs jumped out to a 1-0 lead 2:27 into the first - a chunk of the late-arriving crowd had yet to take their seats due to a winter storm that blanketed Toronto - when Holmberg moved in alone on Shesterkin and backhanded his fifth of the campaign.
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