Matthews finally broke his goal drought in Game 6 to help keep the Leafs alive, and there's no reason to think he won't keep firing away in a Game 7.

Reinhart has only three goals in the postseason, and one in this series, but he's been firing shots throughout the series, and there's a good chance the dam breaks today.

We take home teams in Game 7, that simple. And we are covered in the event of an overtime loss. I hope to heck this goes to OT simply as a fan ... but then naturally Maple Leafs winning. They haven't been to the conference finals since 2002 when they got there with a Game 7 home win in the semifinals to face Carolina in the ECF. And of course, the Hurricanes are there waiting this year. Toronto forward Matthew Knies (58 regular-season points, +7 rating) was in some question with an injury but will play. This might be a homer pick because I'm not much interested in a Florida-Carolina East Finals matchup.

The Leafs passed a real gut-check in Game Six to force this Game Seven. Toronto fans are hoping that Auston Matthews scoring his first goal of the series on Friday will kick-start the production from his line along with Mitch Marner. We're curious to see how Florida, which has advanced all the way to consecutive finals, reacts after being stunned at home. These seem to be some different Leafs than in recent years, credit to HC Craig Berube, who waved a magic wand in his first season with the Blues back in 2019, and there is a quiet confidence to GK Joseph Woll, which he displayed when coming back from a rough Game Five to post the Friday road shutout. Play Leafs on Money Line

Second-round Stanley Cup trendlines have trended so hard to the under that we're seeing out first straight 5s on the totals side for this Game Seven in Toronto. As Paul Maurice even noted after Game Six, the six goals his Florida put into the Leafs net in Game Five consisted of at least "four knuckleballs," as he though the Leafs actually played better than the 6-1 scoreline suggested. If Leafs GK Joseph Woll was rattled, he didn't look it in Game Six when blanking the Panthers in Sunrise to force Game Seven. Toronto still hasn't been able to generate an excess of shots at Sergei Bobrovsky, so expect the same pattern to surface in the Sunday night decider. Play Panthers -Leafs Under