The intense overtime period was just over a minute old when Toronto's Auston Matthews got hold of the rebound after a failed finish by Chicago and in a lightning fast game turn, Nylander passed who completely outsmarted Kevin Lankinen in the Chicago goal.
It was the 25-year-old's third goal in eight games this season and a nice revenge for Toronto after four heavy losses, most recently against Carolina and Pittsburgh.
- It has not looked particularly nice the last few evenings.
Our fighting spirit has not been there at all but tonight we got closer to where we want to be but we are not really there yet, says Nylander at the press conference after the match.
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However, the light in the tunnel seems to be far away for Chicago, which has not won a single one of its seven games so far this season.
Hope was kindled for the crisis team in tonight's match when they scored two goals in the first period, but then Toronto showed which was the better team.
The reduction came at the beginning of the second period and in the middle of the third set Rasmus Sandin played until 2-2.
Toronto is five of the eight teams in the NHL's Atlantic Division, on seven points, but has played both one and two games more than the four leading teams: Florida, Buffalo, Detroit and Tampa Bay.