Mitch Marner scored the goal-ahead goal midway through the third period, Anthony Stolarz made 29 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 in an Atlantic Division showdown Wednesday night.

Toronto’s top line stepped up in a major way in the third. Auston Matthews set up Mitch Marner to give the Leafs the lead with nine minutes to play, and Marner then made a perfect stretch pass to set up Knies for a breakaway goal. Sam Reinhart pulled the Panthers within one with two minutes left, but that’s as close as they would get.

In a battle between two teams vying for the top spot in the Atlantic Division, the Florida Panthers will visit the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena on Wednesday. The first of two remaining head-to-head matchups over the final eight games of the regular season,

For the first time since late November, the Panthers have lost three straight games, capped off by Wednesday’s 3-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The big news that came down before the game was that Panthers Captain Sasha Barkov would be out due to an upper-body injury.