TORONTO -- The Toronto Maple Leafs did not waste any time keeping pace with the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night and then zoomed past them for a 4-1 victory.

The Maple Leafs tied the score five seconds after the Blues had taken a 1-0 lead in the second period and had three goals in the third period.

Blues goalie Jake Allen took responsibility for the tying goal by Toronto left winger James van Riemsdyk on a shot from the top of the left faceoff circle after a St. Louis turnover.

"Bad goal," said Allen, who finished with 29 saves.

Did the shot catch him by surprise?

"No," he said. "Terrible goal."

The goal negated a power play goal by St. Louis right winger Vladimir Tarasenko.

Center Peter Holland scored a power play goal early in the third period to put the Maple Leafs in the lead to stay.

"It's two games in a row where we've been tied going into the third period, played pretty well and lost the third period," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. "Lost faceoffs and lost the special teams game two games in a row. It's disappointing."

It was the second win in a row for the Maple Leafs (15-15-7) and the second loss in a row for the Blues (23-14-4).

"I think we're feeling better about ourselves," Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said. "They're a good team. They play hard. They play right, so it was a good win for our team."

It also was Toronto's second win this season over St. Louis. The Maple Leafs defeated the Blues 4-1 on Dec. 5 in St. Louis in the other meeting between the teams this season.

Center Nazem Kadri and right winger Michael Grabner also scored for Toronto. Grabner added an assist and center Leo Komarov had two assists for the Leafs.

Toronto goaltender Jonathan Bernier, making his ninth straight start, stopped 39 shots.

"That was a great game," Bernier said. "I thought both teams played in their system and we stuck with it and scored some big goals. I thought we did a great job keeping them on the outside and at the end they had a few chances, but on the whole night I think we played unbelievably."

The Blues had won their two previous visits to Toronto and eight of their previous nine games at Air Canada Centre.

The Blue are having difficulty scoring.

"I think we still don't get off as many good scoring chances, we could have more traffic in front of the net," said Blues center Patrik Berglund, who played his first game since having offseason shoulder surgery. "It's obviously a problem we're going to have to work on going forward."

After a goal-less first period, Tarasenko scored his 23rd goal of the season at 8:28 of the second, 20 seconds after Toronto center Daniel Winnik took a hooking penalty. Tarasenko fired a quick shot from the right faceoff circle after taking a cross-ice pass from center David Backes.

The score was quickly tied on an unassisted goal by van Riemsdyk, his 14th goal of the season.

The Maple Leafs scored the go-ahead goal on the power play at 3:15 of the third period on a shot from the top of the right faceoff circle by Holland, his sixth goal of the season, with Komarov providing a screen. It came with St. Louis center Kyle Brodziak serving a cross-checking penalty.

"There's a confidence in this dressing room that we're going to come out the other side of the 60 minutes with two points," Holland said. "(The game) has got to be up there in the top five of the season. We had a couple lapses, but for the most part we did our job and Bernier was there when we needed him.

"That (go-ahead) goal goes in because of (Komarov). The first shot I had right before that, he saw it and made a glove save and the next one he was screening him, so it was pretty much all (Komarov) there."

Kadri scored his seventh goal of the season at 14:05, knocking in a feed from Grabner on a second try to increase Toronto's lead to two goals.

With each side a man short because of penalties, Grabner scored his sixth goal of the season into an empty net at 19:00.

"We lost too many faceoffs in our zone (in the third period)," Hitchcock said. "Didn't start with the puck, took a penalty because we got hemmed in our own zone and the power play goal was it."

NOTES: Blues C Patrik Berglund (shoulder) was activated from injured reserve on Friday and made his season debut on Saturday. He had shoulder surgery in the offseason. RW Jordan Caron was reassigned to the Chicago Wolves of the AHL to make room for Berglund. ... Blues LW Jaden Schwartz (ankle) and C Steve Ott (hamstring) remained out of the lineup. ... Maple Leafs D Stephane Robidas (lower body), C Nick Spaling (upper body), G Garret Sparks (lower body), C Byron Froese (lower body) and G James Reimer (groin) did not play. Reimer played the third period against the Islanders on Tuesday, his first action since Dec. 3, but aggravated the injury and could not make his scheduled start Wednesday in Pittsburgh. ... The Maple Leafs open a three-game Western swing on Wednesday in Anaheim. The Blues return home to play the Ottawa Senators on Monday.