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Toronto Maple Leafs will play the second installment of a seven-game homestand tonight when they welcome the
Florida Panthers to the Air Canada Centre.
Toronto, winless in its last two (0-1-1), is coming off a 4-1 loss at the hands of the Boston Bruins on Monday.
Mats Sundin had a power-play goal for the lone Toronto score, as the Maple Leafs lost for the fourth time in their last six contests (1-4-1). Toronto also fell to 1-3-0 on its ice this season.
Ed Belfour stopped 22-of-26 shots in the loss.
The Maple Leafs outshot Boston 16-4 in the third period, but failed to notch another goal. Sundin made a bid for his second goal of the game in the third, but his score was disallowed because Darcy Tucker was in the crease.
Tucker enters Wednesday's tilt one goal shy of 100 for his career.
Toronto was 1-for-6 on the power play and picked up their league leading 11th tally with the extra skater. In the last five games the Maple Leafs have scored nine power play goals.
Alexander Mogilny assisted on Sundin's tally to raise both of their point- scoring streaks to five games.
Second year left-winger Kristian Huselius scored two unassisted goals, including the game-winner with less than 1 1/2 minutes left in the game, as the Florida Panthers beat Atlanta, 3-2, on Monday.
After an Atlanta turnover in the neutral zone, Huselius skated down-ice with the puck, one-step ahead of the retreating Thrasher defense, and beat goalie Milan Hnilicka with a wrist-shot from the right circle, putting the Panthers ahead, 3-2, with 1:27 left in the game.
Olli Jokinen scored and Roberto Luongo stopped 26-of-28 shots for Florida (2-3-0-1), which won for the first time in four games. Jokinen leads the team in points with six and is tied for the team lead in goals with three.
Center Viktor Kozlov and forward Stephane Matteau are tied for the all-time team lead in career scoring against Toronto with 15 points each. Kozlov has scored two goals and has 13 assists in 22 career games against the Maple Leafs, while Matteau has five goals with 10 assists in 36 games.
Kozlov is also two goals short of 100 for his career.
Tonight's contest will also be the first in Toronto for Florida defenseman Dmitry Yushkevich, who spent seven seasons in a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater before being traded to the Panthers on July 18, 2002, in exchange for the rights to Robert Svehla.
Yushkevich played 506 games as a Maple Leaf and collected 25 goals and 110 assists for 135 points.
The Panthers are unbeaten in their last two versus the Maple Leafs (1-0-1), but are just 3-8-2 in the last 13 and 4-11-4 in the last 19.
Florida is also winless in its last two trips to Toronto (0-1-1) and is 1-6-2 in its last nine visits.