TORONTO (AP) — Kent Johnson scored his second goal of the game at 3:26 of overtime to give the Blue Jackets a 6-5 victory over Toronto on Thursday night after the Maple Leafs overcame a five-goal deficit in the third period.
Patrik Laine, Justin Danforth, Yegor Chinakhov and Johnny Gaudreau also scored for Columbus and Elvis Merzlikins made 43 saves.
Auston Matthews scored Toronto’s final two goals to break a tie for the NHL lead with 23.
William Nylander, Mitch Marner and Jake McCabe also scored and Ilya Samsonov stopped 29 shots to help Toronto run its points streak to eight at 5-0-3.
Matthews scored on a one-timer from Nylander with 1:15 remaining, then netted another with 44.4 seconds left on a one-timer from Nylander.