The Toronto Maple Leafs kept their season alive Friday night with a 2-0 win over the Florida Panthers in Game 6, and the team made its appreciation for its captain clear online. Auston Matthews had been under pressure throughout the series, held goalless in five games, and criticized heavily after Toronto’s 6-1 loss in Game 5.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have a pulse. Auston Matthews has a pulse. There will be a Game 7 in Toronto after the visiting Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers, 2-0, in Game 6.

Auston Matthews scored eight minutes into his first NHL game. The ensuing nine years saw the Toronto Maple Leafs captain put more pucks in the net than any other player in the league, which is why he arrived at Amerant Bank Arena surrounded by a cacophony of what his teammates typically refer to as “noise.