William Nylander scored 1:00 into overtime, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins Sunday.

William Nylander scored 1:00 into overtime, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-5 on Sunday.

William Nylander scored 1:00 into overtime, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins, 6-5, on Sunday. Nylander, Auston Matthews and Matthew Knies each had a goal and an assist as Toronto earned its fifth consecutive win.

Just 10 minutes in, the Maple Leafs were up 2-0 with a 13-3 shot advantage, dominating a tired Penguins team playing an early game on the second leg of a back-to-back. Less than five minutes later, Toronto was down 3-2, and the team ended the first period with a 17-13 shot deficit.

Nylander potted the game-winning goal and added an assist in Sunday's 6-5 overtime win over the Penguins.

The Leafs leapfrogged the idle Florida Panthers to retake first place in the Atlantic Division and finished a four-game trip with eight points. Overall, they’ve won five in a row and eight of nine with the San Jose Sharks in town Monday night.

When a team’s season effectively is over, when conventional victories are scarce, it has to take wins, however small, where it can find them. And so it was Sunday, when the Penguins didn’t allow a goal on their opponent’s first shot for the first time in four games.

Rookie goaltender Joel Blomqvist made 27 saves on 33 shots for the Pittsburgh Penguins in a wild 6-5 overtime loss against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday at PPG Paints Arena. The result dropped Blomqvist’s record to 4-9-1.