The Toronto Maple Leafs escaped another game in their first-round series against the Ottawa Senators with a win on Thursday.

Ranking the reasons why Toronto has Ottawa on the brink of elimination, with the possibility of a sweep on Saturday in Game 4.

Pavel Buchnevich netted a hat trick and added an assist for the St. Louis Blues in a 7-2 win against the visiting Winnipeg ...

Simon Benoit scored at 1:19 of overtime on Thursday to lift the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-2 win against the Ottawa ...

Simon Benoit scored at 1:19 of overtime on Thursday to lift the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-2 win against the Ottawa ...

The Ottawa Senators' first playoff run in eight years has barely started, but they're already on the brink of elimination ...

OTTAWA -- Simon Benoit scored at 1:19 of overtime to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-2 win against the Ottawa Senators in ...

Auston Matthews won a faceoff back to Benoit at the left point, and the defenseman fired a low shot through traffic that beat ...

The Senators are battling the odds here. The Leafs are 10-0-0 lifetime in a playoff series after winning the first two games ...

With a Simon Benoit overtime goal, the Toronto Maple Leafs have taken a 3-0 series lead and are one win away from round 2 ...

The Leafs followed up a strong finish to the second period, in which they didn’t panic after Ottawa took its first lead of ...

Simon Benoit was the unlikely hero for the Maple Leafs as they won their second straight overtime game against the Senators.