Game

Maple Leafs at Lightning

Lightning 4, Maple Leafs 2 · first star Brayden Point (2 G, 1 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Toronto Maple Leafs 2 at Tampa Bay Lightning 4

Maple Leafs TOR

2 FINAL 4

Lightning TBL

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 · 7:30 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Maple Leafs	0	0	2	2	34
Lightning	0	2	2	4	36

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Maple Leafs attack left, Lightning attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: TOR 34, TBL 36.

TOR in red TBL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Maple Leafs 34 shots on goal (2 goals, 14 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 36 shots on goal (4 goals, 23 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TOR SOG	TOR G	TOR ATT	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT
1st	8	0	14	4	0	24
2nd	14	0	21	20	2	32
3rd	12	2	24	12	2	20
Total	34	2	59	36	4	76

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TOR SOG	TOR G	TBL SOG	TBL G
Even strength	26	1	26	4
Power play	6	1	10	0
Short-handed	2	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 56.3% of the shot attempts, and 60.2% of the 98 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Lightning and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Maple Leafs hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Maple Leafs at Lightning
Period	TBL CF%	TBL FF%
1st	63.2	60.7
2nd	60.4	58.1
3rd	45.5	47.2
Game	56.3	55.1

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

2nd period

07:07 Brayden Point (12) Charle-Edouard D'Astous (15), Pontus Holmberg (9) · wrist 0–1
07:58 Gage Goncalves (7) Nikita Kucherov (63), Charle-Edouard D'Astous (16) · wrist 0–2

3rd period

02:59 Nikita Kucherov (30) Gage Goncalves (12), Brayden Point (20) · slap 0–3
16:19 John Tavares (21) PP William Nylander (35), Matthew Knies (33) · wrist 1–3
16:30 Brayden Point (13) Nikita Kucherov (64), Gage Goncalves (13) · wrist 1–4
17:13 Matthew Knies (15) William Nylander (36), Auston Matthews (23) · snap 2–4

Three stars

Brayden Point TBL · C #21 · 2 G, 1 A
Nikita Kucherov TBL · R #86 · 1 G, 2 A
Gage Goncalves TBL · C #93 · 1 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	14:06	TOR	Simon Benoit	slashing	2	Brayden Point
2nd	00:48	TBL	Erik Cernak	interference	2	Auston Matthews
2nd	07:58	TOR	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	roughing	2	Gage Goncalves
3rd	05:24	TOR	Auston Matthews	tripping	2	Pontus Holmberg
3rd	09:43	TOR	Simon Benoit	hooking	2	Brandon Hagel
3rd	14:54	TBL	Ryan McDonagh	holding	2	Auston Matthews

Boxscore

Toronto Maple Leafs

Maple Leafs skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Matthew Knies #23	L	1	1	2	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	17:48
William Nylander #88	R	0	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	100.0	19:02
John Tavares #91	C	1	0	1	-1	3	0	1	0	52.9	17:29
Auston Matthews #34	C	0	1	1	+1	2	1	3	2	66.7	22:54
Bobby McMann #74	C	0	0	0	-1	3	3	0	0	0.0	14:24
Calle Jarnkrok #19	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:11
Max Domi #11	C	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	18:31
Nicolas Roy #55	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	47.1	15:22
Scott Laughton #24	C	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	0	62.5	12:02
Steven Lorentz #18	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	10:18
Matias Maccelli #63	L	0	0	0	-1	4	0	1	0	0.0	14:15
Nick Robertson #89	L	0	0	0	-2	1	5	1	0	0.0	12:52
Brandon Carlo #25	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0.0	17:43
Jake McCabe #22	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	3	0	0.0	22:00
Morgan Rielly #44	D	0	0	0	-1	3	2	0	0	0.0	20:09
Oliver Ekman-Larsson #95	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	2	0.0	22:40
Simon Benoit #2	D	0	0	0	-2	1	4	1	4	0.0	14:32
Troy Stecher #28	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:28

Maple Leafs goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Anthony Stolarz #41	L	36	32	4	.889	22/26	10/10	55:20

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brayden Point #21	C	2	1	3	+4	5	0	0	0	56.5	22:16
Gage Goncalves #93	C	1	2	3	+4	2	0	0	0	0.0	11:51
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	1	2	3	+3	2	0	2	0	0.0	23:57
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	2	2	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	15:09
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	75.0	15:43
Dominic James #17	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	50.0	10:59
Jake Guentzel #59	C	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	0	0.0	22:25
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	-1	3	4	0	0	26.7	19:53
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	0	57.1	17:54
Brandon Hagel #38	L	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	0.0	20:30
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	100.0	12:29
Scott Sabourin #46	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	05:54
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	23:55
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	+3	0	2	0	0	0.0	09:33
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	0.0	17:04
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	+2	2	1	2	0	0.0	18:53
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	2	0.0	16:19
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:51

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	34	32	2	.941	25/26	5/6	60:00

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.