Game

Lightning at Maple Leafs

Lightning 5, Maple Leafs 2 · first star Nikita Kucherov (0 G, 4 A).

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

Tampa Bay Lightning 5 at Toronto Maple Leafs 2

Lightning TBL

5 FINAL 2

Maple Leafs TOR

Saturday, March 7, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Scotiabank Arena, Toronto · TV SNO · NHLN · CBC

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Lightning	4	0	1	5	33
Maple Leafs	1	0	1	2	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Lightning attack left, Maple Leafs attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: TBL 33, TOR 29.

TBL in red TOR in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Lightning 33 shots on goal (5 goals, 11 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Maple Leafs 29 shots on goal (2 goals, 6 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT	TOR SOG	TOR G	TOR ATT
1st	12	4	21	11	1	19
2nd	7	0	15	8	0	13
3rd	14	1	20	10	1	15
Total	33	5	56	29	2	47

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TBL SOG	TBL G	TOR SOG	TOR G
Even strength	28	4	24	2
Power play	4	1	3	0
Short-handed	1	0	2	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 54.4% of the shot attempts, and 54.3% of the 81 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 Maple Leafs and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Lightning hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Lightning at Maple Leafs
Period	TOR CF%	TOR FF%
1st	47.5	41.4
2nd	46.4	55.0
3rd	42.9	40.0
Game	45.6	44.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

04:50 Matias Maccelli (13) William Nylander (38) · wrist 0–1
05:36 Ryan McDonagh (5) Nikita Kucherov (65), Brayden Point (23) · wrist 1–1
12:30 Jake Guentzel (27) Brayden Point (24), Nikita Kucherov (66) · backhand 2–1
13:48 Corey Perry (12) Brandon Hagel (28), Anthony Cirelli (21) · snap 3–1
15:06 Oliver Bjorkstrand (11) PP Nikita Kucherov (67), Jake Guentzel (40) · slap 4–1

3rd period

15:41 Brandon Hagel (29) EN Anthony Cirelli (22), Nikita Kucherov (68) · wrist 5–1
19:29 Nick Robertson (13) Unassisted · wrap-around 5–2

Three stars

Nikita Kucherov TBL · R #86 · 0 G, 4 A
Jake Guentzel TBL · C #59 · 1 G, 1 A
Matias Maccelli TOR · L #63 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	06:41	TBL	Conor Geekie	tripping	2	Jake McCabe
1st	12:14	TOR	Max Domi	fighting (major)	5	Charle-Edouard D'Astous
1st	12:14	TBL	Charle-Edouard D'Astous	fighting (major)	5	Max Domi
1st	14:31	TOR	Brandon Carlo	hooking	2	Nikita Kucherov
1st	17:49	TBL	Darren Raddysh	tripping	2	Nick Robertson
2nd	07:34	TOR	Troy Stecher	high sticking	2	Pontus Holmberg
2nd	11:33	TBL	Scott Sabourin	tripping	2	Dakota Joshua
2nd	14:22	TOR	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
3rd	00:16	TOR	Simon Benoit	holding	2	Yanni Gourde

Boxscore

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	4	4	+3	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:36
Jake Guentzel #59	C	1	1	2	+2	2	0	1	0	20.0	17:06
Brandon Hagel #38	L	1	1	2	+2	3	0	0	0	0.0	18:50
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	0	2	2	+2	5	1	2	0	43.8	15:43
Brayden Point #21	C	0	2	2	+2	1	0	0	0	42.9	16:52
Corey Perry #10	R	1	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	14:58
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	1	0	1	-1	2	3	1	0	50.0	14:56
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	1	0	1	+2	2	1	1	0	0.0	17:25
Conor Geekie #14	C	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	2	40.0	10:04
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	38.5	16:33
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	60.0	13:18
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	0	0.0	14:01
Scott Sabourin #46	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	10:07
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	0.0	16:04
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	0	0	+1	5	3	0	2	0.0	20:45
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	2	0	0.0	19:45
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	18:44
Victor Hedman #77	D	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	20:54

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	29	27	2	.931	22/24	3/3	59:19

Toronto Maple Leafs

Maple Leafs skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Matias Maccelli #63	L	1	0	1	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	14:07
Nick Robertson #89	L	1	0	1	+1	6	2	0	0	0.0	15:08
William Nylander #88	R	0	1	1	-2	2	0	0	0	100.0	17:53
Auston Matthews #34	C	0	0	0	-2	6	0	0	0	75.0	19:17
Calle Jarnkrok #19	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	100.0	11:55
Dakota Joshua #81	C	0	0	0	+1	0	4	0	0	0.0	14:06
Jacob Quillan #26	C	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	62.5	08:44
John Tavares #91	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	2	0	58.8	19:13
Max Domi #11	C	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	5	33.3	13:39
Steven Lorentz #18	C	0	0	0	-2	0	2	1	0	40.0	11:50
Matthew Knies #23	L	0	0	0	-2	2	1	1	0	0.0	19:58
Easton Cowan #53	R	0	0	0	-1	3	1	1	0	0.0	15:18
Brandon Carlo #25	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	1	2	0.0	19:56
Jake McCabe #22	D	0	0	0	-2	0	2	1	0	0.0	22:11
Morgan Rielly #44	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	2	0	0.0	20:39
Oliver Ekman-Larsson #95	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:49
Simon Benoit #2	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	2	0.0	15:13
Troy Stecher #28	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	16:07

Maple Leafs goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Anthony Stolarz #41	L	32	28	4	.875	24/27	3/4	59:22

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.