Toronto Maple Leafs at Carolina Hurricanes
- The Leafs dropped their fourth straight overtime decision, 2-1, to the Lightning on Tuesday and have now taken at least one point from five straight games (1-0-4 record).
- Carolina was shut out, 3-0, by the Panthers on Wednesday and has now dropped a franchise-record 10 straight games overall (0-7-3 record).
- Eric Staal's streak of 349 consecutive games played ended when the Hurricanes took the ice without him on Wednesday. Staal's streak is the longest consecutive games-played streak by a Carolina player since the team's relocation in 1997, and the second-longest in franchise history (Dave Tippett --419).
- The Canes have taken the season-series from the Leafs, 3-1, each of the last two campaigns and have netted at least one power-play goal in all eight games since the beginning of 2007-08 (13-for-40, 32.5%).
- Tomas Kaberle leads all NHL blueliners with 17 points (2g, 15a) in 2009-10. With 450 career points, Kaberle is just two points shy of tying Doug Gilmore for No. 14 on the Leafs' all-time list.
- Toronto is 10-for-34 (29.4%) with the man-advantage in its last five contests.
