The Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs will attempt to dodge their longest losing dash of the period when they have the battling Minnesota Wild today around evening time at Air Canada Center. Try not to miss a snapshot of the activity live on TSN, starting at 7pm et/4pm pt. You can likewise talk hockey and get game updates with TSN. ca's Game Night blog. The Maple Leafs had won a season-high four straight games before losing guideline ruling against Buffalo, the Rangers and Ottawa. It is Toronto's fourth three-game slide of the year, yet the first with each of the three misfortunes coming in guideline. Toronto, which is three focuses behind Florida and Pittsburgh for the last two season finisher spots in the Eastern Conference, hasn't dropped four of every a column since a 0-3-1 stretch from Nov. 26-Dec. 2 of last season. The Wild have additionally lost three straight (0-2-1) and are only 2-10-4 in their last 16 excursions to the ice. Minnesota is right now ninth in the Western Conference with 51 focuses subsequent to driving the NHL with 43 focuses on Dec. 10. Toronto scored the initial two objectives in Tuesday's down against visiting Ottawa, however the Sens scored three unanswered objectives and Craig Anderson made 37 recoveries to lift the guests to a 3-2 choice. Joffrey Lupul and Matthew Lombardi scored for the Maple Leafs, while James Reimer made 18 spares in his first beginning since December 31. â€Å"We let them hang around,† Lombardi said. â€Å"They made the most of their chances and stayed with it. We escaped from our game a couple of times and it bit us at long last. † Toronto has lost the initial two tests on a five-game homestand and is 12-7-4 as the host this season. The group will look to Jonas Gustavsson in objective tonight, who is 0-2 with a 3. 03 objectives against normal and . 91 spare rate in his last two excursions †a lose to the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabers. Minnesota, in the interim, played Tuesday night in Philadelphia and was managed a 5-1 difficulty by the Flyers, who went 2-for-6 on the strategic maneuver and outshot the Wild, 34-26. Previous Flyer Darroll Powe provided the solitary objective for Minnesota, while Josh Harding gave up five objectives on 34 shots in the misfortune †the te nth in push out and about for the Wild. â€Å"Bad things transpired when we were in the lead position and we were winning a ton of hockey games [because] we conquered them. At the present time we let those influence us in an exceptionally negative way,† said Wild lead trainer Mike Yeo. Minnesota is only 10-11-4 as the meeting group this season and is finishing a four-game excursion today around evening time. The Wild's keep going street win went ahead Dec. 10 at Phoenix and the club is 0-8-2 as the visitor from that point forward. Today around evening time's tilt denotes the one booked gathering between the Wild and Leafs this season. Toronto posted a 3-0 win in St. Paul a year ago and has taken six of the nine record-breaking gatherings in this arrangement. The Wild earned their first-historically speaking win in Toronto when the clubs last met at the ACC on Nov. 10, 2009.