TORONTO — Sergei Bobrovsky made 34 saves and the Florida Panthers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in their second-round playoff series.

Anton Lundell had a goal and an assist, and Aleksander Barkov and Gustav Forsling also scored for Florida.

Ryan O’Reilly and Alexander Kerfoot scored for Toronto, which blew an early 2-0 lead. Ilya Samsonov stopped 26 shots.

The best-of-seven series shifts to Sunrise, Florida, for Game 3 on Sunday. Game 4 is scheduled for Wednesday.

Toronto led 2-1 following a spirited, chippy first period. Trouble found the Maple Leafs in the second.

Barkov tied the game 19 seconds into the period on a long shot for his second goal of the postseason. Less than a minute later, there was some sloppy play by Toronto in the defensive zone when Mitch Marner flipped an ill-advised pass to Auston Matthews, who couldn’t get it out of the zone.

Florida quickly countered as Forsling finished off a setup by Matthew Tkachuk — his fourth of the series — for his second and a 3-2 lead.

The Maple Leafs took a while to recover before William Nylander hit the post with a shot that also hit Bobrovsky in the back and stayed out. Florida defenseman Brandon Montour then hit the post at the other end.

Toronto captain John Tavares had a great chance in front before Josh Mahura took a Nylander shot off the visor that left a trail of blood on the ice as he exited for the locker room. The Panthers’ defenseman returned for the third period.

Toronto came out for the third with plenty of urgency, but couldn’t solve Bobrovsky, who has started to rediscover his Vezina Trophy-winning form in these playoffs after losing the starting job late in the regular season to third-stringer Alex Lyon.

Tavares was stopped in alone and Nylander hit another post. The Maple Leafs’ winger was also denied in tight with five minutes left in regulation.

Toronto continued to press with Samsonov on the bench for an extra attacker, but couldn’t beat Bobrovsky.

NOTES

FOUR-GOAL GAMES: Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl and Dallas’ Joe Pavelski made some history in the NHL playoffs, even if they couldn’t really celebrate it.

Draisaitl and Pavelski became just the second pair of players to each score four goals in a playoff game on back-to-back days and the first in 35 years. They’re the first to do so with their teams each losing.

“It’s pretty crazy amazing to get four,” Ray Ferraro, the last player to score four goals in a playoff game his team lost, said by phone Thursday. “And then you lose and you’re like, ‘What the hell just happened?'”

Asked after the Oilers’ 6-4 loss at Vegas on Wednesday night in their series opener if he took any joy in scoring four goals, Draisaitl replied: “No. Nope.”

Stars Coach Peter DeBoer after his team’s 5-4 overtime loss in Game 1 against Seattle called Pavelski’s performance epic and added, “Ashamed we wasted it.”

Told of DeBoer’s comments, Edmonton Coach Jay Woodcroft put the focus on the rest of his team that didn’t keep pace with Draisaitl.

“Leon had a great effort,” Woodcroft said. “He’s been good all playoffs here. But our team can do things a lot better.”

There’s no better than Draisaitl this postseason. The 27-year-old German leads all players with 11 goals and 15 points.

“He’s a tremendous hockey player,” Oilers teammate Mattias Ekholm said. “He shows it night in and night out. He’s the one driving the bus for us right now, and it’s great to watch.”

The last players to score four goals on consecutive days were St. Louis’ Tony Hrkac and Buffalo’s John Tucker on April 9-10, 1988. The Blues and Sabres won.

Dallas and Edmonton are the first teams to lose with a player scoring four goals since Ferraro’s game for the New York Islanders in 1993, when he was 4 for 4 on shots in a 6-4 loss to the Washington Capitals. Ferraro scored OT goals in each of the previous two games that series.

“For me that was the tale end of probably the greatest week I was ever going to have,” Ferraro said. “Every time I turned around, the puck just fell on my stick somewhere.”

Teams are 36-5 in league history when a player scores four goals. Before Ferraro’s Islanders, the only other losses were Chicago to Toronto in 1986 when Denis Savard had four and Toronto to Philadelphia in 1977 when Lanny McDonald did it.

Ferraro acknowledges it’s a strange deal and knows how Draisaitl and Pavelski feel.

“Whether you say it at the time or not, as you look back there’s a personal satisfaction to it,” he said. “At the time, you want to win. You’re doing everything you can to win. It just happened to be your night, and it doesn’t feel great because you still lost.”

OBIT: Czech forward Petr Klima, a Stanley Cup winner with the Edmonton Oilers in 1990, has died. He was 58.

The news was announced by HC Litvinov, the Czech club where he started his career in the 1981-82 season, and by Kadan, where he previously worked as the general manager. The cause of death was not given.

Klima scored a triple-overtime goal for Edmonton against the Boston Bruins in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final at Boston Garden.

Klima emigrated from communist Czechoslovakia in 1985, four years before the collapse of the Iron Curtain.

In 786 games across 13 seasons in the NHL, the right winger scored 313 regular-season goals and added 260 assists. He netted another 28 times with 24 assists in 95 playoff games.

He played for the Detroit Red Wings, Oilers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins.