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Crosby, Penguins look to win fourth straight game

Dec 1, 2007 - 2:44 PM Pittsburgh (11-11-2) at Toronto (9-11-6) 7:00 pm EST

TORONTO (Ticker) - Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins will look to extend a season-long four-game winning streak when they visit the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.

Crosby, who has recorded a point in all but two games he's played this season, scored two goals in the Penguins' 4-1 victory over Dallas on Friday and leads the team with 14 tallies and 35 points.

Pittsburgh, which had six winning streaks of at least four games last season, has scored four or more goals in each of the three games during the winning streak. This after the team failed to tally four in its previous seven games.

The Maple Leafs are coming off a 4-2 victory over Atlanta on Thursday - their first win in five games.

Mats Sundin leads the team with 13 goals and 31 points but the defense has much of the reason for Toronto's struggles so far.

The Maple Leafs have given up up a league-worst 89 goals this season, surrendering 3.42 goals per contest. Goaltender Vesa Toskala is 7-8-3 with an uncharacteristically high 3.10 goals-against average in his first season in Toronto.

Toronto also has failed to help themselves on the power play, scoring 15 goals on 117 chances - the 13 percent conversion rate ranks second-worst in the league.

Pittsburgh is 4-1-1 in its last six meetings with Toronto and the teams have split two contests this season, with each team winning on the other's home ice.