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Maple Leafs hope to take major step in Game 5 vs. Lightning

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Published 3:46 pm

By MARK ANDERSON
AP Sports Writer

The Toronto Maple Leafs take a 3-1 series lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning into Thursday night’s game in front of an energetic and perhaps nervous home crowd. They will try to reverse a recent NHL playoffs history that hangs over the historic franchise. On the other side will be the Lightning, who are used to winning such games. But the Lightning’s three-year run of making the Stanley Cup Final could very well be at the end. Toronto is in the postseason for the seventh season in a row, but the Leafs haven’t won a playoff series since 2004.

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