The Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs are tied 2-2 through four games of their Stanley Cup playoffs second-round series. Whoever wins two over the next three games advances to the Eastern Conference final to face either the Carolina Hurricanes or Washington Capitals.

After practice on Tuesday, Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube said Stolarz was "doing much better," but didn’t provide a timetable for his return. On Thursday, just one day before Game 6 in Florida, Berube offered a new update.

After getting back into the series with a couple of wins on home ice, the Florida Panthers look to push the Toronto Maple Leafs to the brink of elimination on the road on Wednesday night.

Sergei Bobrovsky came within 1:06 of securing back-to-back shutouts to lead the Panthers to a 6-1 Game 5 victory over the Maple Leafs in Toronto.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of the oldest and most iconic franchises in the NHL. The team's history speaks for itself.

His final act as a celebrated star at Scotiabank Arena may ultimately be remembered for a dance of a much darker variety after he inexplicably spun off a defender in his own zone and tossed a no-look backhand pass up the middle of the ice to open the floodgates for the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night.

And when the Panthers routed the Maple Leafs 6-1 in Game 5 on Wednesday at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena — a game in which Florida was 66 seconds from a second consecutive shutout and a game that had the home crowd booing its team by the second intermission? Status quo.

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With the Panthers leading 5-0 midway through the third period, a fan threw an Auston Matthews jersey onto the ice. That followed a second period filled with boos, Bronx cheers, and an early exodus from the stands as fans responded to another lopsided postseason failure.

The Toronto Maple Leafs face the Florida Panthers in Game 5 of the second-round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Toronto is teetering on the delicate line between wanting to show that it won't back down and taking things too far against Florida.