The Toronto Maple Leafs have a pulse. Auston Matthews has a pulse. There will be a Game 7 in Toronto after the visiting Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers, 2-0, in Game 6.

“Gutsy,” Matthews said in his immediate postgame interview with Sportsnet’s Kyle Bukauskas. “Just a gutsy, gutsy win all around. I thought we just battled hard all three periods. It took till midway through the third to break through.

Auston Matthews scored eight minutes into his first NHL game. The ensuing nine years saw the Toronto Maple Leafs captain put more pucks in the net than any other player in the league, which is why he arrived at Amerant Bank Arena surrounded by a cacophony of what his teammates typically refer to as “noise.