Macklin Celebrini made the shooter when San Jose Sharks topped the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs 6-5 on Thursday evening.
Toronto made twice at the last minute of the third period to force overtime.
Tyler Toffoli counted twice in regulation and added an assist while William Eklund had a goal and an assist for the sharks (20-42-9, 49 points), which improved to 3-2-0 in the last five.
San Jose’s Collin Graf and Alexander Wennberg also made regulation. Timothy Liljegren added two assists, and Alexandar Georgiev made 30 rescues.
William Nylander scored twice, John Tavares had a goal and an assist and Auston Matthews and Scott Laughton also counted for Toronto (43-25-4, 90 points), which took over the only position in the Atlantic Division thanks to the score.
Mitch Marner had three helpers for Maple Leafs, Matthew Knies added a couple of assists and Joseph Woll stopped 30 shots.
With 58.3 seconds left in regulation, Tavare’s Toronto pulled within one, and redirected a Marner shot past Georgiev.
Nylander band on 5-5 with 14 seconds left in regulation and snapped a Marner pass in the network.
Earlier, Toffoli netted his second at night to give San Jose a 5-3 lead on a Power Play at 3:02 in the third period and converted an Eklund cross-cooler.
Wennberg gave San Jose a 3-1 lead at 1:39 of the middle frame and snapped a shot under Woll’s blocker.
Toronto lowered the margin to one on a Power Play at 4:46 when Matthews beat the loose puck from Marner’s score.
The sharks took a two -goal lead when Woll played the puck from Eklund and into his own network at 13:18 of the middle frame.
Laughton made it 4-3, one-time a David Kampf pass past Georgiev at 15:13 by the second for his first goal as a member of Leafs.
San Jose exceeded Toronto 16-10 during the opening period and led 2-1 after 20 minutes.
Toffoli opened the score 7:50 into the first period and beat home rebound from Lucas Carlsson’s shot.
Nylander tied it 1-1 at 14:40 on a power play and knocked on rebound from Knie’s shot.
San Jose recalled the lead short hand at 17:45 when graph beat Woll with a wrist shot on the far side.
-Field level media
