Brad Marchand scored on a deflected shot at 15:27 of overtime and the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Friday night to cut their deficit in the Eastern Conference semifinal series to 2-1.

Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart, Carter Verhaeghe and Jonah Gadjovich scored for Florida, which got 27 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky. Evan Rodrigues had two assists for the Panthers. They 13-2 in their last 15 playoff overtime games.

John Tavares scored twice, and Matthew Knies and Morgan Rielly also scored for the Maple Leafs. Joseph Woll stopped 32 shots.

Game 4 will be in Sunrise on Sunday night.

Florida erased deficits of 2-0 and 3-1, and that’s been almost impossible to do against Toronto this season.

By the numbers, it was all looking good for the Maple Leafs.

They were 30-3-0 when leading after the first period, including playoffs, the second-best record in the league.

They were 38-8-2, the league’s third-best record when scoring first.

They had blown only 11 leads all season, none in the playoffs.

They were 44-3-1 in games where they led by two goals or more.

Combine all that with Toronto having won all 11 of its previous best-of-seven series when taking a 2-0 lead at home, Florida being 0-5 in series where it dropped both Games 1 and 2, and leaguewide, teams facing 0-2 deficits come back to win those series only about 14% of the time.

But Marchand — a longtime Toronto playoff nemesis from his days in Boston — got the biggest goal of Florida’s season, rendering all those numbers moot for now.

The Leafs got two goals that deflected in off of Panthers defensemen: Tavares’ second goal nicked the glove of Gustav Forsling on its way past Bobrovsky for a 3-1 lead, and Rielly’s goal redirected off Seth Jones’ leg to tie it with 9:04 left in the third.

Sharks sign Hävelid

The Sharks signed another member of their 2022 draft class, inking defenseman Mattias Hävelid, to a three-year entry-level contract.

This past season Hävelid, 21, had one assist in 19 games with Linköping HC in the Swedish Hockey League and 14 points in 18 regular-season games with Djurgårdens IF, which captured the championship of HockeyAllsvenskan, Sweden’s second-best league, and earned promotion back to the top tier.

The Sharks now have four players from their 2022 draft class under contract, including their top three selections which they received in return for their first-round pick, No. 11 overall, which they sent to the then-Arizona Coyotes, now Utah Mammoth.

The Sharks used those picks on center Filip Bystedt (No. 27), forward Cam Lund (No. 34) and Havelid (No. 45). They also used their fifth-round pick on defenseman Jake Furlong, who signed a three-year deal in Oct. 2023.

— Curtis Pashelka