Toronto came out of a two-goal hole twice and won it 5-4 in overtime, Auston Matthews finishing it at 65 minutes off a William Nylander feed. The Leafs scored the last two goals of regulation and the only one of the extra period.
Nashville owned the first, going up 0-2 on Steven Stamkos (8th minute, assisted by Matthew Wood) and Nils Hoglander (10th), then made it 0-3 when Hoglander struck again at 24. Toronto answered inside the second with John Tavares at 25 and Nylander at 27, and after Stamkos restored the two-goal gap at 34, Gavin McKenna pulled it to 3-4 before the period closed. Jack Roslovic's 49th-minute equalizer, set up by Matthews, was the turning point.
Hoglander's two goals and Stamkos's two led the scoring, but the Matthews-Nylander pairing decided it: Matthews assisted on the tying goal and converted Nylander's pass in overtime, while Nylander finished with a goal and the OT helper.