The Maple Leafs felt they were equal to the moment.
The battle-tested, desperate, championship-calibre roster on the other side was just a little bit better.
Now an Original Six franchise with an enormous amount of pressure, baggage and ugly history heads back out on the road in hopes of finally exorcising its playoff demons.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves in a bounce-back performance Thursday as the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning stayed alive by downing Toronto 4-2 to force Game 6 in the teams’ first-round series.
“It’s a game of inches this time of year,” said Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly, who scored five minutes into
