ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — John Tavares redirected a shot from Morgan Rielly into the net with five seconds left in overtime to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over the Anaheim Ducks in a fight-marred game Monday night.
The Leafs overcame a 3-1 deficit with three goals in the third period, including Rielly’s snap shot from the high slot that beat Anaheim goalie Ville Husso stick-side to give Toronto a 4-3 lead with three minutes left in regulation.
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Toronto Maple Leafs left wing Michael Pezzetta (61) receives a game misconduct and is ejected during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
Toronto Maple Leafs center Max Domi (11) is escorted out of an NHL hockey game during the second period against the Anaheim Ducks, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
Anaheim Ducks and Toronto Maple Leafs players clash during the second period of an NHL hockey game Monday, March 30, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
Toronto Maple Leafs center John Tavares (91) is greeted by teammates after scoring the game-winning goal during overtime of an NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
But Leo Carlsson, who hobbled to the locker room after taking a hard hit and falling to the ice in the first minute of the third, gathered a loose puck near the left circle and flicked a shot past Toronto goalie Anthony Stolarz to make it 4-4 with 1:39 left.
Tavares added a first-period goal, and Stolarz stopped 28 of 32 shots for Toronto, which took the ice about 1 ½ hours after general manager Brad Treliving was fired near the end of his third season, with the Maple Leafs on the verge of being eliminated from the playoffs for the first time in a decade.
Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier scored in the first 10 minutes, and John Carlson scored his first goal for the Ducks. Gauthier, who leads the Pacific Division-leading Ducks with 38 goals and 65 points, suffered an upper-body injury on a cross-check late in the first and did not return. Husso had 22 saves.
Ducks captain Radko Gudas, slowed by a lower-body injury, insisted on playing in the rematch of a March 12 game in which his knee-on-knee hit on Auston Matthews led to a season-ending injury for the Toronto captain and a five-game suspension for Gudas.
It took three seconds for the Leafs to exact some revenge, Toronto forward Max Domi and Gudas dropping the gloves and exchanging punches as soon as the puck dropped.
That set the tone for a hard-hitting game that featured a combined 85 penalty minutes, numerous scuffles and game misconducts incurred by Toronto’s Michael Pezzetta and Domi in the second.
Ducks: At San Jose on Wednesday.
Maple Leafs: At San Jose on Thursday .
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Toronto Maple Leafs left wing Michael Pezzetta (61) receives a game misconduct and is ejected during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
Toronto Maple Leafs center Max Domi (11) is escorted out of an NHL hockey game during the second period against the Anaheim Ducks, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
Anaheim Ducks and Toronto Maple Leafs players clash during the second period of an NHL hockey game Monday, March 30, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
Toronto Maple Leafs center John Tavares (91) is greeted by teammates after scoring the game-winning goal during overtime of an NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)
SAO PAULO (AP) — A year ago, Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro touted his family’s connection with U.S. President Donald Trump as a major political asset. This week, Bolsonaro is in Washington leaning into that relationship again in an attempt to shore up his weakening presidential bid after he received millions of dollars from a disgraced banker.
Bolsonaro arrived on Tuesday without a public agenda. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his rival in October’s elections, had a three-hour meeting with Trump on May 7. The 80-year-old leader seeks a fourth, nonconsecutive term.
The Trump administration has not commented publicly on the Bolsonaro scandal.
The son of former President Jair Bolsonaro has been under fire since May 13, when messages leaked by The Intercept from a federal police investigation showed he received about $12 million from Daniel Vorcaro, former owner of the shuttered Banco Master.
Vorcaro is accused of defrauding bank customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars after he convinced them to make shady investments. Brazil’s federal police estimate the bank’s total fraud at 12 billion reais ($2.3 billion).
Flávio Bolsonaro has denied any wrongdoing and asserts that Vorcaro’s money was used to produce a movie about his father’s life. The investigation continues.
Political opponents have been on the attack since the revelation.
“Anyone getting close to a criminal banker gives a bad sign," former Minas Gerais Gov. Romeu Zema, a Jair Bolsonaro supporter who is running for the presidency, said on Monday.
Bolsonaro’s campaign has been shaken as he searches for a running mate and tries to form party alliances. The latter is key for him to get more resources and free air time on TV and radio, which is determined by the number of seats that each party holds in the lower house.
Even before Bolsonaro’s connection to Vorcaro was public, he lacked support from many in the business community.
Former Goias Gov. Ronaldo Caiado and Renan Santos, also presidential hopefuls, have raised doubts about Bolsonaro, and some politicians argue that former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro should replace him as presidential candidate.
“Michelle would bring many voters back. She has a good name for herself,” former environment minister and lawmaker Ricardo Salles said in a recent podcast. “She is much softer and that could work.”
Michelle Bolsonaro lives with the former president in Brasilia, where he is under house arrest for his coup attempt conviction. She has remained silent about the link between the senator and the failed banker and about making a presidential run.
“That is none of my business. I have to take care of my husband,” she said last week.
Sen. Marcos Rogerio, one of Flávio Bolsonaro’s key allies in congress, said the presidential hopeful has been giving the necessary explanations for what happened between him and Vorcaro.
“Moments like this deserve our attention. He needs to make it all clear. But he has also argued in favor of a congressional inquiry on Banco Master. This thing will not bar his candidacy at all,” Rogério told journalists on Saturday. “We are not going to re-evaluate his bid or choose a different person. The senator’s candidacy is still standing.”
Political analyst Lula Guimaraes, who has worked for candidates across the political spectrum in Brazilian elections, said the revelations would have been deadly for Bolsonaro if they had come out shortly before the vote.
The police investigations could further hurt his chances, but voters might leave the issue aside when it matters, Guimaraes added.
“As of now, people in Brazil want to know who will win the next World Cup. They want to know whether Neymar will play or not. That alone will make this whole affair less visible for a month,” Guimaraes said. “I don’t think this alone will be deadly for Flávio Bolsonaro, but even the man himself said there’s more about him and Vorcaro to come out. He’d better buckle up.”
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Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, talks on the phone as he arrives for the swearing-in ceremony for justices Nunes Marques and Andre Mendonca as president and vice president of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
