The Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs will try to avoid their longest losing streak of the season when they army the struggling Minnesota Wild to darkness at Air Canada Centre. Dont look out on a moment of the action live on TSN, beginning at 7pm et/4pm pt. You can besides talk hockey and get game updates with TSN. cas grainy Night blog. The Maple Leafs had won a season-high four straight games before losing code decision against Buffalo, the Rangers and Ottawa. It is Torontos fourth three-game slide of the year, but the first one with all told three losses coming in regulation.Toronto, which is three points behind Florida and Pittsburgh for the closing devil sportswomanoff spots in the Eastern throng, hasnt dropped four in a words since an 0-3-1 stretch from Nov. 26-Dec. 2 of run low season. The Wild have also lost three straight (0-2-1) and are just 2-10-4 in their goal 16 hinge upons to the ice. Minnesota is currently ninth in the Western Conference with 51 points after leading th e NHL with 43 points on Dec. 10. Toronto scored the first two conclusions in Tuesdays game against visiting Ottawa, but the Sens scored three unrequited goals and Craig Anderson make 37 saves to lift the visitors to a 3-2 decision.Joffrey Lupul and Matthew Lombardi scored for the Maple Leafs, while James Reimer made 18 saves in his first start since December 31. We let them fall down around, Lombardi utter. They took advantage of their opportunities and stuck with it. We got away from our game a few times and it turn of events us in the end. Toronto has lost the first two tests on a quintuplet-game homestand and is 12-7-4 as the host this season. The team will look to Jonas Gustavsson in goal this evening, who is 0-2 with a 3. 03 goals-against average and . 91 save percentage in his last two outings a lose to the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres. Minnesota, meanwhile, played Tuesday night in Philadelphia and was dealt a 5-1 setback by the Flyers, who went 2-for-6 on the po wer play and outshot the Wild, 34-26. Former Flyer Darroll Powe supplied the lone goal for Minnesota, while Josh Harding surrendered five goals on 34 shots in the loss the 10th in row on the road for the Wild. Bad things happened to us when we were in first fanny and we were winning a lot of hockey games because we overcame them.Right now we let those affect us in a very negative way, said Wild head coach Mike Yeo. Minnesota is just 10-11-4 as the visiting team this season and is completing a four-game road trip tonight. The Wilds last road win came on Dec. 10 at genus Phoenix and the club is 0-8-2 as the guest since then. Tonights tilt marks the one plan meeting between the Wild and Leafs this season. Toronto posted a 3-0 win in St. Paul last year and has taken six of the nine all-time meetings in this series. The Wild earned their first-ever win in Toronto when the clubs last met at the ACC on Nov. 10, 2009.