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December 22, 2010, Wednesday
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FREDRIK Modin and Tobias Enstrom each scored a pair of goals as the red-hot Atlanta Thrashers dumped the slumping Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Monday.
Anthony Stewart and Andrew Ladd also scored as the Thrashers notched their sixth win in nine games to reclaim top spot in the Southeast Division from the Washington Capitals.
All three Toronto goals came on the power play, Mikhail Grabovski, Nikolai Kulemin and John Mitchell, with his first of the season, finding the back of the net.
Another lackluster effort sends the struggling Maple Leafs into their five-day Christmas break on a three-game losing skid.
Certainly there was no Christmas cheer for the home team as the capacity crowd mercilessly booed the Leafs late in the game and then showered the ice with waffles, in what has become a curious way for Toronto fans to protest the team's poor play.
"You don't want to let that bug you too much but you can hear things and see things," Mitchell told reporters. "You don't want to see that stuff."
The Thrashers scored on two of their first three shots, Modin beating Jonas Gustavsson with slap shot and Enstrom adding a power-play tally 28 seconds later.
Toronto recovered from the early lapse, pulling one back in the second when Mitchell pounced on a big rebound and ripped a wrist shot past Ondrej Pavelec before Modin restored Thrashers' two-goal cushion with 56 seconds remaining in the period.
In Pittsburgh, Evgeni Malkin tied a career high with five points as the Pittsburgh Penguins smashed the Phoenix Coyotes 6-1.
Elsewhere in NHL, it was: Panthers 5, Flyers 0; Ducks 3, Bruins 0; Canucks 3, Blues 1; Lightning 5, Hurricanes 1; and Wild 4, Flames 1.
Anthony Stewart and Andrew Ladd also scored as the Thrashers notched their sixth win in nine games to reclaim top spot in the Southeast Division from the Washington Capitals.
All three Toronto goals came on the power play, Mikhail Grabovski, Nikolai Kulemin and John Mitchell, with his first of the season, finding the back of the net.
Another lackluster effort sends the struggling Maple Leafs into their five-day Christmas break on a three-game losing skid.
Certainly there was no Christmas cheer for the home team as the capacity crowd mercilessly booed the Leafs late in the game and then showered the ice with waffles, in what has become a curious way for Toronto fans to protest the team's poor play.
"You don't want to let that bug you too much but you can hear things and see things," Mitchell told reporters. "You don't want to see that stuff."
The Thrashers scored on two of their first three shots, Modin beating Jonas Gustavsson with slap shot and Enstrom adding a power-play tally 28 seconds later.
Toronto recovered from the early lapse, pulling one back in the second when Mitchell pounced on a big rebound and ripped a wrist shot past Ondrej Pavelec before Modin restored Thrashers' two-goal cushion with 56 seconds remaining in the period.
In Pittsburgh, Evgeni Malkin tied a career high with five points as the Pittsburgh Penguins smashed the Phoenix Coyotes 6-1.
Elsewhere in NHL, it was: Panthers 5, Flyers 0; Ducks 3, Bruins 0; Canucks 3, Blues 1; Lightning 5, Hurricanes 1; and Wild 4, Flames 1.
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