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Two weeks ago, fans threw their jerseys onto the Air Canada Centre ice following the Toronto Maple Leafs seven-goal loss that capped a three-game skid. Three straight home victories have changed the mood a bit. Toronto continues its homestand while looking to deal the Dallas Stars a third consecutive defeat Tuesday night. Viewers in the Maple Leafs region can watch the game on TSN4 at 7:30pm et. Jonathan Bernier will get the start in net for the Maple Leafs. The Maple Leafs (12-8-3) were forced to answer questions about their inconsistency and the job security of coach Randy Carlyle in the wake of a 9-2 loss to Nashville on Nov. 18. Theyve gone 3-0-1 since, though, and tied their highest-scoring output of the season in Saturdays 6-2 win over Washington to begin a five-game homestand. Toronto also has defeated Tampa Bay and Detroit at home while falling at Pittsburgh in overtime Wednesday during its hot stretch. It is in the midst of playing 11 of 13 at Air Canada Centre, where it is 7-2-0 since dropping four of its first five. Home games are great to have, but youve got to win them, Carlyle said. To have success, youve got to take advantage of the schedule when it comes your way and sets you up for some home games. Youve got to take advantage of it. Tyler Bozak scored twice - once on the power play - against Washington and has five goals and two assists during a four-game point streak. Its nice. The puck is kind of following me around a little bit, playing confident and linemates are making great plays for me, Bozak said. Hopefully, it can keep going for a bit. The Leafs also hope their power-play unit will continue clicking. Toronto went 1 for 23 with the man advantage over its previous six before going 3 for 4 against the Capitals. It was nice to see that our power play finally came to life and create some offense for us, Carlyle said. I thought we played half the game the way we wanted, and then we kind of got away from our game, but how do you critique a 6-2 win? Forward Leo Komarov will not play as he recovers from concussion symptoms from being hit by Alex Ovechkin in Saturdays game. Richard Panik will take Komarovs spot in the lineup. Dallas coach Lindy Ruff criticized his club after it allowed the final three goals in Saturdays 5-2 loss to Colorado in the first stop on a three-game road trip. The Stars (9-10-5) rallied from a three-goal deficit the previous night against Minnesota before falling 5-4 in overtime, ending a three-game winning streak. They end their trip at Detroit on Thursday. I thought we were totally embarrassed, Ruff said. What we did with the puck and how many giveaways and how many turnovers, it was pathetic. Weve got to wipe it clean. Look at what is ahead of us. I dont buy back-to-back games or lack of energy. Our effort wasnt good enough. We got outworked. Jamie Benn had another solid game, though, assisting on Cody Eakins first-period goal. He has three goals and seven assists during a three-game point streak. Benn had a goal and three assists in Dallas 7-1 home win over Toronto in the most recent meeting Jan. 23. Bernier gave up three goals on 13 shots before being pulled, and James Reimer allowed four on 14 shots. Bernier has a 2.23 goals-against average while starting each of the last four games. Kari Lehtonen, who won his previous three starts before losing to Minnesota, could be back in net for Dallas. 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His mom and dad have the other one from four years ago back home in Winnipeg. "Maybe Ill hang em up together," he says. Toews has not yet reached the age of 26. He already owns two Stanley Cups and now his second gold on the grand Olympic stage - all in the last four years. He also boasts gold from two World Juniors and another from the 2007 Worlds. He scored the first goal in Canadas 3-0 triumph over Sweden in Sundays gold medal match and further cemented himself as one of the defining - if not the defining - winners and crunch-time players of his generation. He was the best player on the biggest stage in Vancouver and remained right up there again this time around in Sochi. That winning feeling never seems to get old. "I think every time you get the chance," said Toews, gold medal still around his neck afterward, "theres still that feeling of nerves that you dont want to pass up the chance to win. You want to do it again. You never know how many chances youre going to get so you want to do the best you can to bring it home. Im just lucky to be part of these teams that want to win as bad as I do." That burning desire to win is what makes Toews such a special player and leader at a wise-beyond-his-years age of 25. Its why the Chicago Blackhawks pinned him with the captaincy at the tender age of 20, this after just a single season in the NHL. He is both willing and able to do whatever it takes to win. Score a goal. Kill a penalty. Win a faceoff. Shut down the oppositions top offensive force. Toews can and will do it all. On this day against the Swedes, it was scoring the elusive first goal and eventual game-winner. Toews, who led the forwards with over 19 minutes, hadnt scored before that in these Olympics, but there he was redirecting a terrific pass from Jeff Carter and setting the tone for Canada. "I know Johnny cares so much about hockey," said Canadian and Blackhawks teammate Duncan Keith, also a winner of two Cups and two Olympic gold medals. "He lives and breathes hockey. Thats the way he is as a person. That sort of stuff doesnt surprise me at all." In the semifinal against the Americans, he was shutting down the previously unstoppable Phil Kessel, keeping the eventual tournament scoring leader (tied with Erik Karlsson) off the board entirely in a tense 1-0 win.dddddddddddd In fact, it was the line of Toews, Carter and Patrick Marleau that keyed in on the oppositions best throughout the entire tournament. The trio was a driving force in Canadas dominant defensive effort, one that saw them yield exactly three goals in six games and not one in either the semifinal or final. "Hes a winner," said Alex Pietrangelo, less than two years younger than Toews, but worlds apart in experience. "Resume speaks for itself. Obviously a great leader. Plays the game the right way. Plays the game hard, every practice, every game. Great guy to learn from, great guy to follow." Toews is so respected around the league for his winning accomplishments that even Sidney Crosby, the games top player, checked with his Chicago counterpart before accepting the captaincy for Team Canada. He wanted to make sure Toews, a winner of two Cups to just one for Crosby, was okay with it. For first-time Olympians like Pietrangelo and Matt Duchene, Toews and Crosby were the two to watch here in Sochi, the two to follow on the difficult path to gold, the second in as many Olympics for Canada. "Him and Sid are the two guys I probably look up most to in the league," said Duchene. "You want to follow in the footsteps of those guys." Stepping into the lineup for the injured John Tavares in Fridays semifinal against the U.S., Duchene said he looked to Toews and Crosby for leadership. "...they were kind of my calming factors. I looked at them and saw how they were dealing with it and thought okay, thats where I want to go as an individual so this is how I have to act and how I have to deal with it. "I didnt have any nerves the last two games and that was pretty amazing." For the second time in as many gold medal games it was Toews and Crosby both scoring for Canada - the latter on a breakaway against Lundqvist - both elevating their play under the most pressure-infused of situations. Both knew nothing less than gold was good enough, either for the nation or themselves as individuals. "This is old hat for them this game here," Duchene said with a growing smile. "This probably ranks in the top five biggest games ever [for them], not number one like me by a mile. Its pretty cool. Those are the guys you want to be like as you get older." ' ' '