Pens fall in overtime
TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs didn't gain any ground in their bid for a playoff spot, and Tomas Kaberle made sure they didn't lose any either.
Kaberle scored his second goal of the game at 3:55 of overtime and the Maple Leafs took a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.
Pittsburgh's Ryan Whitney tied it with four seconds left in regulation after the Penguins pulled goalie Marc-Andre Fleury for an extra skater. Pittsburgh rallied from a 4-1 deficit.
Overtime was delayed for at least 10 minutes after a fan collapsed in the stands. Fans and medical personal pumped the man's chest for several minutes before the fan was carried out. It happened right after Whitney tied the game.
"The gentleman was successfully resuscitated and he was on his way to more care," Toronto coach Paul Maurice said.
Maurice said the delay helped them.
"It was an emotional roller coaster. To fire that into the middle of what we're going through, clearly that is more important," Maurice said.
Chad Kilger, Alexei Ponikarovsky and Bryan McCabe also scored for the Maple Leafs, who stayed in ninth place in the Eastern Conference, one point and one place below Montreal and the playoff cutoff. Toronto, which missed the playoffs last year, has four games left.
"This is it, four left," Toronto goalie Andrew Raycroft said. "It's going to come down to the last one probably, we've got to hang in it. It would be nice to reel off a few more and give us some room."
The Maple Leafs, who lead Carolina and the New York Islanders by three points, have won seven straight at home after starting the season 11-15-5 at the Air Canada Centre. This game attracted a franchise-record crowd of 19,649.
