Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Florida Panthers Game 4 Prediction, NHL Odds
The Leafs are -118 favourites on the NHL odds with a total of 6.5 goals.
Maple Leafs vs. Panthers NHL Playoff Betting Odds
With Florida up 3-0, it is now -1111 on the series line (was -286 entering Game 3) with Toronto +729 (was +243). That the series finishes in a sweep is a +109 favourite, while seven games is +467. The favoured exact result is Panthers in four at +1100. Leafs in seven is +735. Florida is now the +134 favourite to win the East.
Toronto is one of the few franchises in the NHL to have rallied from down 3-0 to win a best-of-7 series doing so in the 1942 Stanley Cup Finals. That’s the first time it happened. It last did in the 2014 Western Conference first round when Los Angeles was down 3-0 vs. San Jose.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Who starts in goal for Toronto in Game 4? Joseph Woll stopped 18 of the 21 he faced for the Maple Leafs on Sunday in the 3-2 OT loss after he relieved starter Ilya Samsonov, who stopped all eight shots he saw before leaving early in the second period with an injury. At the 37-second mark of the second period, Leafs defenceman Luke Schenn fell and slid into Samsonov. Florida would tie the game on the ensuing power play. Matt Murray is the Leafs’ third goalie in the series but hasn’t played since April 2 due to a concussion. Sam Lafferty (first of playoffs) and Erik Gustafsson (first) had the Toronto goals in Sunday’s loss. Morgan Rielly assisted on Lafferty’s goal to extend his point streak to eight games, tying the franchise record. Auston Matthews was another who had an eight-game streak but that ended in Game 3.
Florida Panthers
The Panthers rallied from 1-0 and 2-1 deficits to win Game 3, taking it 3-2 on Sam Reinhart’s fifth goal of the playoffs at 3:02 of OT. It was his eighth postseason goal since the start of the 2022 postseason. Only Carter Verhaeghe (10) has more for the Panthers over that span. It marked Florida’s second comeback win in as many contests and fourth overall of the 2023 playoffs, the most among all teams. Florida’s six-game winning postseason winning streak is the fourth-longest by any team in the past decade. With his sixth consecutive win, Sergei Bobrovsky improved 6-1-0 with a .909 save per centage in the postseason. The Panthers are up 3-0 in a playoff series for the second time in franchise history. The first was in Round 1 of 1996 vs. Boston, which Florida won in five.
