Tempers flared both on the ice and on the benches during the waning moments of Game 4 between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers on Sunday evening. After Max Domi laid out Aleksander Barkov with a dirty hit from behind as time expired,

OTTAWA — Exactly 29 years before the Toronto Maple Leafs emerged victorious from a taut and tense Battle of Ontario, Michael Nylander was nursing a personal playoff disappointment.

Willy Styles is the nickname given to Toronto forward William Nylander by Joe Thornton when the two quarantined with a handful of other Maple Leafs teammates in a Toronto-area home in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. It suggested that Nylander marches to the beat of his own drum, something the eccentric Thornton would know all about.