The Maple Leafs forward stepped into the fray when Toronto defenceman Morgan Rielly got tangled up with Boston Bruins star David Pastrnak during a Game 5 scrum. Knies, who mocked the former 61-goal man for not challenging him, then scored in overtime later that night to keep his team alive in the first-round series.

The Tampa Bay Lightning will face the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight. The Bolts, who have won each of their last two games, will look to stay hot. View the original article to see embedded media. For this contest against the Maple Leafs,

The Leafs' budding power forward is already pretty good, but once Matthew Knies finds the confidence and consistency most young players seek, the sky is the limit.

Matthew Knies has two goals and an assist, and the Toronto Maple Leafs held off a late Tampa Bay Lightning rally to take home a 5-3 victory. The Leafs jumped out to a two-goal behind Auston Matthews’s first-period goal and William Nylander’s second-period goal.