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Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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The Toronto Maple Leafs visits the Florida Panthers in NHL Picks action looking to avenge their worst loss of the season.  Back on February 5th the Panthers pasted the Maple Leafs on their home ice 8-0. Toronto has been hot recently as they have won four of their last five games including an impressive 5-0 win over Ottawa back on Monday.  However, they are hoping that the winning chemistry will still be there as this will be the first game since sending right wing Wade Badek to Florida for a 2008 fifth round pick, while picking up a third-round pick in this year's draft from the Panthers for left wing Chad Kilger.  They also sent defenseman Hal Gill to Pittsburgh for a 2008 second round and a fifth round pick in 2009.  Pior to that huge loss to Florida Toronto goaltender Vesa Toskala has had good success versus the Panthers as he is 3-0-0 his L3 games while posting an impressive 1.33 goals against average.  The memory of that huge loss might still be playing in the minds of the odds makers as the Maple Leafs are listed as a +105 on the money line and +1.5/-255 on the puck line as BetUs.com

The Florida Panthers are just the opposite of the Maple Leafs as they come into this game loser of four of their last five games.  Their current losing streak as dropped them to 28-29-0-8 and into a tie with Toronto near the bottom of the Eastern conference standings.   The Panthers also didn’t stay pat as the trading deadline approached hoping to shake things up as they traded Ruslan Salei, its second-highest scoring defenseman, to Colorado for defenseman Karlis Skrastins and a 2008 third-round pick.  Their current defensive performance has them ranked only 21st in the NHL giving up an average of 2.85 goals per game.  One thing in their favor tonight is the fact that goaltender Tomas Vokoun is 3-1-1 in five career starts versus the Maple Leafs with a 1.60 goals against average. 

The Panthers have had trouble bouncing back from losses all season long as they are 6-12 ATS in home games after having lost 2 of their last 3 games this season.  But Toronto seems to be unable to repeat top performances as they are 2-9 ATS after a blowout win by 4 goals or more over the last 2 seasons. 

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