In Sunrise, the Florida Panthers et a franchise record with their 13th straight win on Saturday, 3-2, over the Toronto Maple Leafs in extra time. 
Brandon Montour hit for the winner in the extra session.
“It has been incredible,” Montour said. “The guys we have in that locker room are all great people. Off the ice, we have a blast. We come to the rink every day and have fun. There’s one heck of a hockey team in there. We take it each shift, each game. It is showing this year. It has been good.”
Sergei Bobrovsky made 34 saves in the win.
“It was a hard game, but it had good pace,” Panthers coach Andrew Brunette said. “We haven’t seen a team like this for the last little bit. It was good to grind one out a little bit, fall behind and have to come back again. We don’t want to continuously do that, but we weren’t at our best today. Give [the Maple Leafs] credit, they played the right way. They played fast, played harder than we did. We just found a way to get back into the game.”
Mitchell Marner and Justin Holl were the Toronto strikers.
Claude Giroux and Aleksander Barkov each had a goal in regulation for the Panthers.
“It doesn’t matter who we play, we want to keep getting better as a team and keep building on what we’re doing,” Giroux said. “We had no business winning that game if [Bobrovsky] doesn’t make the saves he made. He looked solid and really shut the door for us.”
Toronto dropped to 51-21-7.
“I thought our guys played hard tonight,” Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said. “We easily could have won the game. I thought we won the first and third period. Against this team, you’ve got to score more than two. That’s what they’ve been doing all season, they find ways to win.”
Jack Campbell made 32 saves in the Leafs loss.
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