Maple Leafs 3, Wild 0
Rookie James Reimer made 29 saves for his third career shutout, and the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a 3-0 victory over the skidding Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.
Mikhail Grabovski had a goal and an assist and Joffrey Lupul and Carl Gunnarsson scored goals as the Maple Leafs sent the Wild to their franchise-record seventh consecutive defeat.
Nikolai Kulemin had a pair of assists for Toronto (33-31-10), which remained five points behind eighth-place Buffalo with eight games to play.
The Maple Leafs got the most out of their scoring chances, taking a 3-0 lead at 2:13 of the third period on Gunnarsson's power-play tally, just their 12th shot of the game.
Niklas Backstrom made 14 saves in enduring his fifth straight defeat for Minnesota (35-30-8), which has been outscored 31-9 during its seven-game slide and remained seven points behind three teams deadlocked for eighth in the Western Conference.