Toronto Loses Two-Goal Lead, Remains Unbeaten On Kessel's Goal In OT

New York, NY (Sports Network) - Phil Kessel scored twice, including the game- winner on the power play 3:08 into overtime, as Toronto remained perfect on the season with a 4-3 win to spoil the home opener of the New York Rangers.

Clarke MacArthur and Mike Komisarek also lit the lamp for the Maple Leafs, who are off to a 4-0 start for the first time since the 1993-94 season, when they won a franchise-record 10 straight games to start the campaign.

"We've had a good start, but we have to keep building," Kessel said. "We gave up a two-goal lead and have to work on that now."

MacArthur, who had 16 goals all of last season, has five through four games already in his first year with the Maple Leafs. He became the first player in Leafs history to score in each of his first four games of the season.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 21 saves to get the win.

In overtime, Marc Staal was whistled for interference, and Toronto scored just 20 seconds after the infraction. Tyler Bozak sent the puck to Kessel in the left circle and his shot went past a screened Henrik Lundqvist.

Brian Boyle scored twice in a 4:09 span in the third period for the Rangers, who won at Buffalo and then lost to the Islanders in their first two games. Michal Rozsival also scored, while Sean Avery added two assists in defeat. Lundqvist made 34 saves.

The Rangers were also hit with a dose of bad news following the game. Head coach John Tortorella announced captain Chris Drury will be out about six weeks after he suffered a broken left finger for the second time in as many months. The Blueshirts will also be without right wing Marian Gaborik for 2-to-3 weeks due to a separated left shoulder.

Toronto's Colby Armstrong drilled Gaborik from behind early in the second period and was given a boarding penalty. Drury was making his season debut Friday after suffering a broken left index finger during training camp. He broke the same finger on a collision with Rozsival Friday night. Tortorella said left wing Vinny Prospal will have right knee surgery Tuesday and is out indefinitely.

Rozsival scored on a wrister from above the right circle 7:58 into the game, and the Rangers kept the lead through the opening period thanks to Lundqvist. He made 16 saves in the stanza, including robbing Bozak with six minutes remaining.

MacArthur tied the game 2:04 into the second by depositing a loose puck in front past Lundqvist, and Komisarek was credited with the go-ahead tally nearly three minutes later as he whistled a shot from above the right circle into the net.

Kessel's first goal came at the 7:50 mark, a deflection in front after a great pass from Bozak in the left circle.

Boyle got the Rangers within a goal 2:10 into the third, as his shot from near the right circle deflected off the stick of Toronto defenseman Dion Phaneuf and past Giguere.

The Rangers killed off a 5-on-3 power play for the Leafs, which occurred in part to Avery's slashing penalty as he whacked at Komisarek's leg twice far away from the play along the boards. Shortly after the two-man advantage expired, the Rangers rushed up the ice and Boyle got the puck on the inside edge of the right circle and sent the puck past a surprised Giguere.

Komisarek sent a payback message to Avery, but was sent off the ice for cross- checking at 9:54 of the third. Toronto killed off that penalty. Avery had a golden opportunity during the man-advantage, but his open shot from in front was deflected over the net.

Lundqvist robbed Mikhail Grabovski on a wrap-around try with nearly 3 1/2 minutes left, and the Leafs got another chance on the power play when Dan Girardi took a delay of game penalty by sending the disc over the glass with 3:04 left. However, the Rangers killed off the disadvantage with little resistance.

Giguere made a right pad save on a redirection of the puck in the waning seconds of regulation.

"Obviously we're not happy about the first couple of periods," Tortorella said. "I don't think we should be happy about the lack of discipline at certain times."

The Rangers had their four-game winning streak snapped in home openers...New York was 3-0-1 against Toronto in 2009-10, including a 2-0-0 mark at MSG. The Rangers outscored the Maple Leafs, 12-3, at home last season...New York was 0-for-5 on the power play.