Matthew Knies had two goals and an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs held on late to down the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-3 on Monday night.

Matthew Knies had two goals and an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs held on late to down the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-3 on Monday.

Kucherov danced his way to the right faceoff dot, pulling a Detroit defender toward him before cutting back to the right center hashmark. Kucherov shelved his shot into the top right corner of the Detroit net for his 21 st goal of the season.

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The Tampa Bay Lightning will play the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday. It will be an Atlantic Division showdown as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Lightning-Maple Leafs prediction and pick. The Lightning are 32-31 over the past 63 games against the Maple Leafs,

Johansson was the first goalie off during Monday's morning skate, Gabby Shirley of FanDuel Sports Network Florida & Sun reports, indicating that he'll draw the road start against Toronto.

Johansson made 23 saves Monday in a 5-3 loss against Toronto. He allowed four goals. He wasn't bad, but that's not good enough. Johansson is 5-4-1 with a 3.27 GAA and .899 save percentage this season,

Max Pacioretty will not be in the lineup when the Toronto Maple Leafs take on the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday.

Flashing elite talent

Vasilevskiy turned aside 39 of 40 shots on goal in Saturday's 5-1 win over Detroit. Vasilevskiy turned in one of his better performances of the season Saturday, as it was only the second time in 2024-25 that he's faced at least 40 shots.

The Red Wings are averaging 2.91 goals per game in 2024-25, 20th in the NHL.

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