Toronto, ON (My Sportsbook) - Boyd Devereaux registered his second career hat trick, and Niklas Hagman scored twice, as the
Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the
Ottawa Senators, 5-2, in the season finale for both teams at Air Canada Centre.
Lee Stempniak and Matt Stajan each finished with two assists for Toronto, which won two of its last three to close out its campaign.
The Maple Leafs, who have not made a playoff appearance in the last four seasons, finished with a 34-35-13 mark.
Martin Gerber turned aside 37-of-39 shots for Toronto.
Jason Spezza and Chris Kelly tallied for the Senators, who dropped their last two.
Ottawa, which missed out on the playoffs for the first time since 1995-96, end the season with a 36-35-11 record.
Brian Elliott made 25 saves for the Senators.
With the score evened at 2-all after two periods, Hagman's marker 3:37 into the third put the Leafs in front by a 3-2 margin. Devereaux then notched the hat trick on a backhander, with Toronto skating shorthanded, with 2:49 left to give the hosts some insurance. Hagman's empty netter with 44 seconds left accounted for the 5-2 final score.
Devereaux opened the scoring 4:59 into the first period when he took a feed from Stempniak and fired a wrist shot past Elliott to give the Leafs the early lead.
Devereaux then tallied his second of the contest at 4:48 of the second to put Toronto ahead by two.
However, the Senators struck for a pair of goals just under 2 1/2 minutes apart. First it was Spezza lighting the lamp on the power play at 9:14, then Kelly's wrister tied things at 11:42. The contest remained deadlock after two periods.
Game Notes
Ottawa finished the season with a 14-23-4 road record this season...Toronto had a 16-16-9 home mark...The Leafs won four of six meetings versus the Senators this year...Devereaux's first hat trick came March 17, 2000 against Ottawa, when he was a member of the Edmonton Oilers.