Buffalo beats a third team in the playoff chase in their last 4 games.
By Joe Yerdon / NHL.com Correspondent
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Toronto Maple Leafs matched a season-high with their fourth straight loss, 5-3 to the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Monday.
Sam Reinhart, Jason Pominville, Ryan O’Reilly and Johan Larsson each had a goal and an assist, Rasmus Ristolainen had two assists, and Chad Johnson made 38 saves to lift the Sabres (21-34-11) to their third win in four games.
Leo Komarov scored twice, Mitchell Marner had a goal, and Frederik Andersen made 19 saves for the Maple Leafs, who are 0-2-2 in their past four games.
Toronto (39-22-7) is three points behind the Boston Bruins for second place in the Atlantic Division, and Boston has five games in hand.
Reinhart gave the Sabres a 1-0 lead at 1:53 of the first period when he deflected a Ristolainen shot on the power play.
Pominville made it 2-0 1:50 later when he tipped a Ristolainen shot off Toronto center Nazem Kadri’s skate at 3:43.
Komarov scored a power-play goal to make it 2-1 with eight seconds left in the first, putting in the rebound of a William Nylander shot.
Komarov tied it 2-2 at 10:48 of the second period when he scored off a pass from Matt Martin.
Zemgus Girgensons gave the Sabres a 3-2 lead at 13:30 of the second when a pass from Reinhart intended for defenseman Marco Scandella went in off Girgensons’ skate.
O’Reilly made it 4-2 at 15:35 of the second when a pass from Maple Leafs defenseman Ron Hainsey went off the referee’s skate to O’Reilly for an open shot.
Larsson made it 5-2 at 9:55 of the third period when he scored on the rebound of a Pominville shot.
Marner scored a power-play goal to make it 5-3 with 2:03 left.