Maple Leafs pull off stunning Game 4 comeback, Alexander Kerfoot pots overtime winner

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Alexander Kerfoot scored on the power play at 4:14 of overtime after Toronto wiped out a three-goal deficit in the third period, and the Maple Leafs beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-4 Monday night to take a commanding 3-1 series lead in their first-round playoff matchup.

Alex Killorn scored twice in helping the Lightning build a 4-1 lead that the Maple Leafs erased with three goals — two by Auston Matthews — in a span of 6 minutes, 20 seconds. Morgan Rielly's second goal of the series tied it 4-all at 16:04 of the third period.

It was the second time in three nights Toronto rallied late to force overtime. Ryan O'Reilly's goal with 60 seconds left in regulation kept the Maple Leafs alive in Game 3, and O'Reilly won it at 19:45 of OT for a 2-1 series lead.

The Toronto Maple Leafs celebrate a goal in overtime by Alexander Kerfoot #15 to win Game Four of the First Round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena on April 24, 2023, in Tampa, Florida. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Mikhail Sergachev and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 32 shots and had a couple of big saves in the overtime period before Kerfoot redirected Mark Giordano past the goaltender for the win.

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Noel Acciari scored for the second straight game for Toronto, deflecting Justin Holl's shot past Vasilevskiy early in the second period to briefly get the Maple Leafs within one goal before Tampa Bay pulled away with goals by Stamkos and Killorn that made it 4-1.

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It was 2-0