National Hockey League
Toronto 5, Boston 4
When: 7:00 PM ET, Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Where: TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts
Referees: Tom Chmielewski, Chris Rooney
Linesmen: Steve Barton, Trent Knorr
Attendance: 17850

Mitch Marner scored his second goal with 51.3 seconds left in overtime to lead the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs to a come-from-behind, 5-4 win over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.

Marner picked up a long Auston Matthews feed and deked Boston goaltender Jeremy Swayman to slide home the deciding goal, which finished Toronto's climb out of 3-0 and 4-3 deficits en route to its third straight victory.

The Bruins' three-goal lead was erased after a two-goal Toronto run to start the third, but David Pastrnak carried the puck out of the left corner and scored a quick release under the crossbar for a Bruins go-ahead tally with 9:27 left in regulation.

Toronto forced overtime, however, as Pontus Holmberg scored an extra-attacker goal with 46 seconds left in regulation, popping a loose puck out of a net-mouth scramble.

Morgan Rielly led the Leafs with a goal and three assists, Nick Robertson had a goal and a helper, and Oliver Ekman-Larsson had two helpers.

Toronto's Anthony Stolarz stopped 32 shots.

Pastrnak posted two goals and an assist to extend his NHL season-long point streak to 15 games for Boston, which is on a four-game skid (0-2-2).

Brad Marchand added a goal and an assist, Morgan Geekie also scored, and Mason Lohrei had two helpers. Swayman made 24 saves.

The Bruins led from the first shift, as Lohrei sent a perfect stretch pass down the middle of the ice to Pastrnak for a break-in goal only 29 seconds into the game.

Marchand made it 2-0 when he buried the carom of a Pastrnak shot off Toronto defender Jake McCabe on the power play at 13:59 of the first. Less than a minute earlier, Matthews clanked the left post on a short-handed odd-man rush.

Boston nearly extended its lead to 3-0 to end the first, but Stolarz denied Geekie's point-blank chance from low on the right.

Geekie needed only six seconds of a second-period power play to net the Bruins' third goal. Scoring exactly halfway through the game, he one-timed an Elias Lindholm rebound from the left circle.

The Leafs got on the scoreboard with 6:08 left in the second. Rielly slotted Matthew Knies' cross-ice pass over Swayman's glove from the top of the left circle.

Marner brought Toronto within 3-2 only 59 seconds into the third, stickhandling between the circles before firing a wrist shot from inside the left dot.

At 6:39, Robertson tied the game at 3-3 with a transition wrister that Rielly orchestrated with a head feed through the Boston defense.

Toronto defenseman Chris Tanev (upper-body) played only two shifts in the opening period.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
 
Toronto   Boston
Morgan Rielly 4 Points David Pastrnak 3
Mitch Marner 2 Goals David Pastrnak 2
Morgan Rielly 3 Assists Mason Lohrei 2
Mitch Marner 1 Power Play Goals Brad Marchand 1
N/A Short Handed Goals N/A
Anthony Stolarz .889 Save Percentage Jeremy Swayman .828
Anthony Stolarz 32 Saves Jeremy Swayman 24
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Shots Goals Power Play Penalty Kill Penalty Mins Face Offs Won
Toronto 29 5 1-4 4-6 12 30
Boston 36 4 2-6 3-4 8 28
Upcoming Games
  • Boston will play their next game at home against NY Islanders. The Bruins have a W/L % of .407 after a win and .500 after a loss.
  • Toronto will play their next game on the road against NY Rangers. The Maple Leafs have a W/L % of .639 after a win and .591 after a loss.