from Terry Koshan of the Toronto Sun,

Don’t go exorcising those playoff ghosts just yet.

The Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning will decide their best-of-seven first-round series in Game 7 in Toronto on Saturday night.

The Leafs’ elimination-game frustration continued on Thursday night at Amalie Arena, as Toronto failed to put away the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion and lost 4-3 in overtime.

Brayden Point scored the winning goal at 18:04 of the extra period, sliding a rebound past Leafs goalie Jack Campbell.

Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made nine saves in overtime, including tough stops on Alex Kerfoot and Ilya Mikheyev.

Since 2018, the Leafs are 0-8 in elimination games. A ninth consecutive loss on Saturday would make a short memory of the best regular season in Leafs history, when the team set franchise records with 54 wins and 115 points.

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