Max Domi scored at 3:09 of extra time while the Toronto Maple Leafs survived a 2-0 advantage to defeat the Senators of Ottawa 3-2 and climb 2-0 in their first round playoff series on Tuesday.
The end moved to the offensive zone in the extra period and torn his first in the postseason above to Linus Ullmark.
John Tavares, with a goal and an assistance, and Morgan Riely provided the rest of the Toronto offensive. Anthony Stolarz made 26 salvages.
Brady Tkachuk and Adam Gaudette responded by Ottawa. Ullmark stopped 18 shots.
The best battle of seven of Ontario now changes to the capital of the nation for games 3 and 4 from Thursday at Canadian Tire Center.
The Leafs, who took the first game on Sunday 6-2, lead a series of postseason 2-0 for the first time since 2002.
In the playoffs for the first time in eight years after a long reconstruction, the senators limp at home looking for answers.
Toronto, who beat Ottawa four times in five postseason clashes in the early 2000s, is 10-0 of all time in the series where the club wins the first two games at home, and has an advantage of two-game playoffs of two games for the second time in 10 attempts in the Auston Matthews-Mitch Marner era.
The Leafs went up 1-0 at 3:43 of the first period on Tuesday, moments after Marner arrived at Ullmark to his mercy when William Nylander’s centered pass hit a hard-loading riely for his second goal in the series.
Ottawa had a couple of good looks in his first power game, but Stolarz was there to make four stops, including the opportunities of brand to Dylan Cozens and Tkachuk.
After scoring three fast goals in the advantage of man in game 1 against an inexperienced and indisciplined opponent, Toronto capitalized 18 seconds in his first chance when Tavares sent an album to the fold that deviated from the defense of Ottawa, Nick Jensen, in the fourth shot of the local team at 8:20.
Stolarz covered the Ridly Greig front senators, who slid at the Netminder at the end of game 1, at the end of an Ottawa power game in the second in a sequence that resulted in coincident minor sanctions.
The visitors stabilized themselves while the period was carried out and cut the deficit in half at 15:41 with another man advantage when Tkachuk, again, the objective of “Brady Chupa” the songs inside a rocky sand of Scotiabank, sent a pass front that hit the skate of the blue color of Leafs brandon Carlo and drips beyond a stolarz bass.
Tavares had the opportunity to put the early 3-1 in the third, but the defender of senators Jake Sanderson made enough in the setback to interrupt his effort.
Ottawa, which is 0-9 of all time when leaving the first two games in a series, received his equalizer with 5:13 in the regulation of a deviation from Gaudette after the defense of the Leafs, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, changed the album to prepare the stage for the OT drama.
Captains America
The series marks the first time in the history of the NHL, two Canadian teams with captains born in the United States, Tkachuk and Matthews of Ottawa, have met in the playoffs.
The chief coach of the Leafs, Craig Berube, who won the Stanley Cup with St. Louis Blues in 2019 and received the reins of an organization that sought to finish decades of playoffs misery, was previously asked about his initial thoughts on the battle of Ontario.
“There is a hatred there, surely,” said the former hard type of the NHL of Calahoo, high, with a smile. “It’s quite good. I enjoy it.”
