Fraser Minten scored against his former team and Jeremy Swayman made 30 saves as the Boston Bruins beat the sloppy Toronto Maple Leafs 5-3 on Saturday night for their sixth straight victory.

John Tavares scored the overtime winner for the Toronto Maple Leafs, steering his team to a 4-3 overtime victory over the Buffalo Sabres. Tavares notched the 499th goal of his career, capping off an excellent performance where he was arguably the team’s best player.

For the Toronto Maple Leafs forward, it is fitting that November is Hockey Fights Cancer Month. After all, it was last November -- the 14th, to be exact -- when he was able to return to the game he loved after going through his own battle with the heinous disease.

The Toronto Maple Leafs bounce back and beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 in overtime. Here are two key takeaways from their win last night.

The Sabres snatched three points from their Atlantic rivals, proving their fight. Now, they need to maintain their surge or risk falling back into old, sub-par habits.

There was every reason, for instance, to suppose that the game in which the Toronto Maple Leafs swamped the Americans 5-0 would turn out to be one of the liveliest performances of the year. The teams had played a magnificently undignified game here three weeks before.

The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 in overtime of their back-to-back matchups on Saturday.

Maple Leafs' Chris Tanev, in his first game back from a concussion, was stretchered off the ice after a collision. He was released from the hospital.