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"It was a crucial pole," said Webber, who celebrated his third career victory by throwing his helmet into the stands.Even with the holiday season in full swing, the NHL schedule shows no signs of slowing down with 11 games - four of them featuring Canadian teams - on tap tonight. In Toronto, the Maple Leafs will be looking to exorcise a ghost of Christmas past when they host goaltender Ryan Miller and the Buffalo Sabres at the Air Canada Centre. Simply put, Miller has owned the Leafs. Hes allowed only four goals against 115 shots in three games this season and stopped all 38 shots for a 2-0 win on Nov. 30. Hes 20-7 against the Leafs, including a 5-1 record last season. In Buffalo on Friday, the Sabres (21-10-3) again got the best of the Leafs, and Miller led the way. The NHLs hottest goaltender made 40 stops in the 5-2 win, stretching Buffalos streak over Toronto to eight games. Miller, who leads the league with a 1.89 goals-against average, has started all eight, posting a 1.25 GAA and a .961 save percentage. At the other end of the ice, ten Sabres have combined for 11 goals against the Leafs this season. Only Tim Connolly has two. Thomas Vanek sat out of Saturdays game with an abdominal injury and is questionable for tonight. Toronto (13-16-7) finished 10 points behind Buffalo in the Northeast Division last season - the same amount of points it allowed the Sabres to grab during their last five head-to-head meetings. The Leafs struggles against the Sabres have continued in 2009-10. Toronto lost 3-2 in overtime at HSBC Arena on Oct. 30, then fell 3-0 when the series moved to Canada - Buffalos seventh straight win at Air Canada Centre - on Nov. 30. Coming off his first career NHL shutout - a 2-0 win over Boston on Saturday - rookie netminder Jonas Gustavsson should get the call in goal for Toronto. The Montreal Canadiens hope to gain some more momentum from Andrei Markovs return as the they visit the Atlanta Thrashers in the second game of their season-long seven-game road trip tonight. Markov scored two power play goals in a 3-0 win at the New York Islanders on Saturday after missing 35 games with severed tendons in his foot. Jaroslav Halak, who starts in goal tonight, made 40 saves for his first shutout of the season. Halak, who made 22 saves in a 2-1 shootout victory over Atlanta on Oct. 20, is 0-2-0 with a 9.49 GAA in two career starts at Philips Arena. The Canadiens, originally hoping to fly to Atlanta on Saturday nigght, didnt arrive until Sunday evening for this game after snow kept them on Long Island. Eagles Jerseys. Theyll have some extra company on the trip, as the club has called up forward Benoit Pouliot from Hamilton of the AHL. In Ottawa, a mid-season battle for top spot in the Northeast Division gets under way as the Boston Bruins visit the Senators. The Bruins longest losing streak of the season (four) has dropped the team into third place in the Northeast Division after the Senators passed them over the weekend. Boston ranked second in the NHL with 3.3 goals per game last season, but a lack of scoring has plagued the team throughout much of its inconsistent start. They havent dropped five in a row since a six-game skid in December 2007. The Bruins with just seven goals during their current slide, and they were blanked for the fourth time this season in a 2-0 loss at Toronto on Saturday night. But Boston has won nine of its last 10 against Ottawa, with Bruins goalie Tim Thomas winning his last nine starts against the Senators. He has a 1.63 GAA in those games. The Senators leapfrogged the Bruins with a 4-1 win over Minnesota on Saturday, improving to 4-2 in their last six games overall and 8-1 in their past nine at home. With injured centre Jason Spezza out of the lineup, the club rookie defenceman Erik Karlsson scored his first NHL goal and goalie Mike Brodeur earned the win in his first NHL start on Saturday. Finally, the St. Louis Blues and the Edmonton Oilers will meet in a matchup of two of the Western Conferences worst clubs. The Blues (15-14-5) occupied the conferences cellar before kicking off a four-game road trip Sunday night against Vancouver, but the Blues pushed the Oilers (15-16-4) into last place with a 3-1 victory, their sixth in their last eight road contests. The Oilers got a pair of second-period goals from Shawn Horcoff and Andrew Cogliano on Saturday night, but they gave up four goals over the final 20 minutes to fall 4-2 to Washington. Edmonton also led Nashville 2-0 in the first 5:01 on Thursday night but gave up three goals to end the first period. The Oilers never recovered in a 6-3 defeat. But after giving up the first three goals Dec. 11 at the Scottrade Center, the Oilers charged back with five unanswered goals - including two from Gilbert Brule - to take a 5-3 victory. ' ' '