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TORONTO – Tobias Enstrom had two goals and two assists, Fredrik Modin scored twice against his former team and the Atlanta Thrashers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Monday night.
Anthony Stewart also scored and Andrew Ladd had an empty-net goal for the Thrashers.
Atlanta moved past the Washington Capitals for first place in the Southeast Division. The surprising Thrashers have picked up at least a point in 14 of their last 16 games.
Mikhail Grabovski scored for the fourth game in a row as part of a brief third-period Maple Leafs rally that ultimately fell short.
John Mitchell and Nikolai Kulemin also scored for Toronto.
The Maple Leafs were back on home ice after a three-game swing through Western Canada in which they dropped the last two games to Calgary and Vancouver.
The return to the Air Canada Centre did little to reverse their fortunes as the Leafs found themselves in a two-goal hole before the game was 3 minutes old. By the final period, fans were calling for coach Ron Wilson to be fired.
Despite the fast start for Atlanta, the game remained close through the halfway point, with Mitchell scoring his first of the season on a second-period Toronto power play to cut the lead to 2-1. But Modin's second of the game came with just 56 seconds remaining in the middle frame, restoring the two-goal lead.
