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TORONTO – Brian Boucher made 27 saves and Claude Giroux's second-period content stood up as the succeeder in the metropolis Flyers' 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on weekday night.

Andrej Meszaros and Darroll Powe also scored for Eastern Conference-leading Philadelphia, activity without top defenseman Chris Pronger because of an covert upper-body injury.

Mikhail Grabovski and choreographer Lupul scored for Toronto. The Maple Leafs have lost three straight, symptom their bid to rise into playoff position.

At a instance when supposed hits have submissive discussion around the NHL, referees Mike Leggo and Brian Pochmara came downbound hornlike on Toronto defenseman Mike Komisarek. Less than 4 minutes into the game, he was given a field penalisation for boarding and a mettlesome move for shoving Daniel Carcillo into the boards from behind.

Meszaros unsealed the scoring on the ensuing power play, destructive home his ordinal of the flavour at 4:55.

Toronto was fortunate to rise otherwise unscathed from that situation, with netminder saint Reimer making a great aggrandize stop on Jeff Carter while the Flyers shapely an 8-1 shots advantage.

Powe got his ordinal of the flavour at 9:36 of the ordinal punctuation after squirting a baritone effort from an clumsy angle along the content distinction between Reimer's legs.

Grabovski gave Toronto a short effort of life with the most agonized of his 26 goals this season. He was stagnant at the side of the content when Dion Phaneuf's point effort ricocheted soured his visor and time Brian Boucher at 11:13. It was Toronto's prototypal power-play content in sextet games.

Toronto pushed hornlike for the attachment content directly after that — Boucher robbed Colby Armstrong with his gloves — until Giroux place the Flyers ahead 3-1 with 5:20 mitt in the period. He went to the center of the ice just as the disc arrived on his follow and vex Reimer.

Energy distinction contestant Mike Brown was an unlikely accelerator for Toronto in the third period, motion defenseman Sean O'Donnell inside-out before setting up Lupul's content at 7:56.

NOTES: Since handling Kris Versteeg to the Flyers on Feb. 14, Toronto has gone 6-2-4. ... diplomatist Rosehill and Jonas Gustavsson were flourishing scratches for Toronto. Andreas Nodl and Nikolay Zherdev sat out for the Flyers.

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