On the final night of their three-game swing through Canada, the Florida Panthers were on the wrong side of a comeback.
The Panthers closed out a two-part, seven-game road trip Sunday with a 5-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first meeting of the season between the two Atlantic Division rivals. It was an unusually stagnant offensive performance for Florida and it cost the Panthers a second-period lead in Ontario.
Florida (44-15-6) took a 2-1 lead on the Maple Leafs with in the first two minutes of the second period, then didn’t score again for the final 38:33, while Toronto (41-19-5) stormed back with a pair of second-period power play goals, a third-period goal on a 2-on-1 and a last-second empty-net goal to hand the Panthers their most lopsided loss since February.
